Victor James William Patrick Daley

“ Of brave Explorers dead,
Who perished — while the burning arch
Of blue laughed overhead;
The Solitary Man who stares
At the mirage so fair,
While Death steals on him unawares
And grasps him by the hair ”

“ He yet is painting at full bat —
You'll say, if him you see,
"His body dwells on Gander Flat,"
His soul's in Italy.
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