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Francis Adams Quotes

1862–1893 Malta

Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 – 4 September 1893) was a British poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life. Born in Malta to a Scottish father and educated in England, in 1884 he migrated to the colony of New South Wales, which inspired much of his writing.

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Yes, let Art go, if it must be
That with it men must starve —
If Music, Painting, Poetry
Spring from the wasted hearth.
Nay, brothers, sing us battle songs
With clear and ringing rhyme;
Nay, show the world its hateful wrongs,
And bring the better time!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.