O this weather! this weather!
It’s more than a mortal can bear;
I fear we shall all melt together,
So dreadfully hot is the air.

This anonymous poem published in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on 29 January 1829. It was signed with one letter – Q.

From A Poem A Day: Australasia & the Pacific

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