This sample of poetry, carefully copied into a school exercise book by his grandson, Philip, came from an original collection of twenty poems gathered by Francis Theobald Heffernan, my great-grandfather. His original book is held within one branch of his descendants. Australian poets, Andrew B (Banjo) Paterson and Will Ogilvie feature, having written a third of the poems in the collection. Several named poets are not well known; others have pseudonyms. Some of these poems appeared in The Bulletin, the … Continue reading