Here fix the tablet. This must be the place <br />Where our Columbus of the South did land. <br />He saw the Indian village on that sand <br />And on this rock first met the simple race <br />Of Austral Indians who presumed to face <br />With lance and spear his musket. Close at hand <br />Is the clear stream from which his vent'rous band <br />Refreshed their ship; and thence a little space <br />Lies Sutherland, their shipmate; for the sound <br />Of Christian burial better did proclaim <br />Possession than the flag, in England's name. <br />These were the commelinae Banks first found; <br />But where's the tree, with the ship's wood-carved fame? <br />Fix, then, the Ephesian brass-'tis classic ground!<br /><br />Barron Field<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-visiting-the-spot-where-captain-cook-and-sir-joseph-banks-first-landed-in-botany-bay/
