Poor Richard : Poor Richard : 5


Home : Poor Richard : Poor Richard : 5	previous \| next
Poor Richard 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 dear kanga 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Leave Report Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982 Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription All poems © W. H. Oliver	5 Dying in Botany Bay he made his last statement in a telegram. Indeed he was soon for God's country a land uplifted higher than Tasman's alps and Wakefield's Wellington. The great slack body was brought from the convict colony to the antipodean home of the free the south's better Britain cased in insulating lead. At the very end he murmured other words of live black hair smooth skin and ecstasy something of loss rising like smoke from a fire on the rainy coast.