The Camp Within the West

"The Camp Within the West" is an 1898 poem by Australian poet Roderic Quinn.^[1]

It was first published in The Bulletin on 15 October 1898, ^[2] and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

An observer notes a troop of men go by, "as pale as pale can be". Their "camp is in the West", as they march off to the land of the dead.

In a short piece titled "War: And Poetry" for The Bulletin Dowell O'Reilly called this poem "perhaps our most beautiful stray flower of verse, in its perfect inter-dependence of emotion and form."^[3]

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin^[2] it was reprinted as follows:

• The Hidden Tide by Roderic Quinn, Bulletin, 1899^[4]
• The Bulletin, 29 December 1900^[5]
• The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909^[6]
• The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918^[7]
• Poems by Roderic Quinn, Angus and Robertson, 1920^[8]
• An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927^[9]
• The Bulletin, 29 January 1930^[10]
• A Girdle of Song : By Poets of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Rhodesia edited Edith M. Fry, British Authors' Press, 1944^[1]
• Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944^[11]
• Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946^[12]
• An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952^[13]
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964^[14]

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