The Bushrangers: A play in five acts

And other poems

The Bushrangers

Introduction

Charles Harpur


“Evil on itself shall back recoil,
And mix no more with goodness; when, at last,
Gathered like scum, and settled to itself,
It shall be in eternal restless change,
Self-fed, and self-consumed; if this fail,
The pillared firmament is rottenness,
And earth’s base built on stubble.”
COMUS

 

“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”

MERCHANT OF VENICE.

 

Trust and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,
Madness, Mirth, and Melancholy;
Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pillage,
All are housed in one small village.

MS


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