Excerpt from An Anthology of Australian Verse Fruits of Australian Poetry, for private circulation. Field was a friend of Charles Lamb, who addressed to him the letter printed in The Essays of Elia under the title of Distant Correspondents. Lamb re viewed the First Fruits in The Examiner, and one wishes for his sake that the verses were more worthy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.