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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1819

1 story in Sydney's papers

SONNET; Written during a Storm at Sea

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1819 · page 3

O'er Southern Seas the midnight tempest howls, And on the deck the vivid lightnings glare; Each furious wave a mighty mountain rolls, Jove's angry thunders hurtle through the air…

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