The Australian Sunrise

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A sketch of the wonderful rising of the sun in Australia. The poem details the fading of the morning star as another bright day comes in. As soon as the darkness of the night passes, the moon slowly descends itself and the sun emerges from the sea, making it orange and red. It is as if conveying about the fulfillment of hopes and dreams of every man; and the contentment they have upon reaching their goals.

James Lister Cuthbertson was a Scottish-Australian poet and teacher. James Cuthbertson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the first son of William Gilmour Cuthbertson and his wife, Jane Agnes Cuthbertson. James studied at the secondary school, Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, where he joined in on the school cricket team. He learned the Indian civil service, and having passed as a probationer went on to Merton College, University of Oxford, England. He missed the mark to be admitted into the mandatory examination and was required to forget the thought of having a profession in India. His father was the manager of the Bank of South Australia at Adelaide, and in 1874 James chose to go to Australia also.

James later became one of the staffs of the Geelong Grammar School as a classical master from the deception that he had graduated at Oxford. He instituted the School Quarterly, to which he wrote several poems, and the first set of these was printed at Geelong with the title Grammar School Verses in 1879, an extremely sporadic small pamphlet not enumerated in the bibliographies of either Serle or Miller. Then he went back to England and pursued his studies in Oxford, finally accomplishing a degree in B.A. He directly went back to Australia and then again associated himself at the staff of Geelong Grammar School.
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