Here you will find the Poem Sonnet On Affixing A Tablet To The Memory Of Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks Against The Rock Of Their First Landing In Botany Bay of poet Barron Field
I have been musing what our Banks had said And Cook, had they had second sight, that here (Where fifty years ago the first they were Of voyagers, whose feet did ever tread These savage shores) ? that here on this south head Should stand an English farm-hut; and that there On yon north shore, a barrack tow'r should peer; Still more had they this simple Tablet read, Erected by their own compatriots born, Colonists here of a discordant state, Yet big with virtues (though the flow'ry name Which Science left it, has become a scorn And hissing to the nations), if our Great Be Wise and Good. So fairest Rome became!
