Sunday, December 10, 2006

A poem by Barron Field

Sonnet

(On visiting the spot where Capt. Cook and Sir Joseph Banks first
landed in Botany Bay.)

Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land.
He saw the Indian village on that sand,
And on this rock first met the simple race
Of Austral Indians, who presumed to face
With lance and spear his musket. Close at hand
Is the clear stream, from which his vent'rous band
Refreshed their ship; and thence a little space
Lies Sutherland, their shipmate: for the sound
Of Christian burial better did proclaim
Possession, than the flag, in England's name.
These were the commelinae Banks first found;
But where's the tree, with the ship's wood-carved fame?
Fix then the Ephesian brass - 'tis classic ground.

- Barron Field (1825)

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