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VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.(Poem)
God's unevaporated tear Named for the Devil from the start, The ineluctably sad isle, Melancholic, alcoholic From genocide and convict days Contaminates my blood as song, A bitter, soul-dark, harsh complaint. Black hulk to starboard all my life, I ...
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