I have been musing what our Banks had said <br />And Cook, had they had second sight, that here <br />(Where fifty years ago the first they were <br />Of voyagers, whose feet did ever tread <br />These savage shores) — that here on this south head <br />Should stand an English farm-hut; and that there <br />On yon north shore, a barrack tow'r should peer; <br />Still more had they this simple Tablet read, <br />Erected by their own compatriots born, <br />Colonists here of a discordant state, <br />Yet big with virtues (though the flow'ry name <br />Which Science left it, has become a scorn <br />And hissing to the nations), if our Great <br />Be Wise and Good. So fairest Rome became!<br /><br />Barron Field<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-on-affixing-a-tablet-to-the-memory-of-captain-cook-and-sir-joseph-banks-against-the-rock-of-their-first-landing-in-botany-bay/
