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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Poet, Horseman
1833 - 1870
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The Elgar Festival - The Spirit of Delight: Elgar 2
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The Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) and Lilli Paasikivi
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Adam Lindsay Gordon's grave at Brighton Cemetery |  | THE
POET
GORDONDIED JUNE 24. 1870
AGED 37 YEARS
QUESTION NOT, BUT LIVE AND LABOUR
TILL YON GOAL BE WON;
HELPING EVERY FEEBLE NEIGHBOUR,
SEEKING HELP FROM NONE.
LIFE IS MAINLY FROTH AND BUBBLE
TWO THINGS STAND LIKE STONE -
KINDNESS IN ANOTHER'S TROUBLE.
COURAGE IN YOUR OWN.YE WEARIE WAYFARER |
| On the three remaining sides of the monument are the following inscriptions: | SEA SPRAY
AND
SMOKE DRIFT | ASHTAROTH | BUSH BALLADS
AND
GALLOPING RHYMES |
 | ADAM LINDSAY GORDON
POET AND HORSEMAN
TETHERED HIS HORSE TO THIS HITCHING POST
DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN BRIGHTON 1869-70
A SHINING SOUL WITH SYLLABLES OF FIRE
WHO SANG THE FIRST GREAT SONGS
THESE LANDS CAN CLAIM (KENDALL)
PRESERVED AND DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY BY
THE UNITED LICENSED VICTUALLERS ASSOCIATION
20TH OCTOBER 1945 |
In additions to the monuments above, other tributes to Gordon can be found around Victoria and beyond. - On the highway near Coleraine Race Track is a monument commemorating Gordon's participation as a jockey there.
- The Ballarat Botanical Gardens preserves his cottage (shifted from Bath Street)
- In 2002 the Royal Grammar School Worcester, England opened a new building called Gordon House to celebrate 150 years since A L Gordon was at the school.
- And, of course, he is still the only Australian poet to have a bust in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey in London. The bust was placed there in 1934.
Recommended listening: (CDs available from  ) | The Swimmer, probably Gordon's most powerful poem, was given an equally powerful musical setting by Edward Elgar in his Sea Pictures.. The performance by Dame Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli is regarded as one of the great recordings. Buy this CD today from amazon.com |
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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