MELBOURNE:
WILLIAM INGLIS AND CO., PRINTERS,
FLINDERS STREET EAST.
_TO MATTHEW ARNOLD IN ENGLAND._
‘_Master, with this I send you, as a boy_
_that watches from below some cross-bow bird_
_swoop on his quarry carried up aloft,_
_and cries a cry of victory to his flight_
_with sheer joy of achievement—So to you_
_I send my voice across the sundering sea,_
_weak, lost within the winds and surfy waves,_
_but with all glad acknowledgment fulfilled_
_and honour to you and to sovran Truth!_’
_January, 1886._