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Mary Gilmore

  • Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

    • Mary Gilmore,
    • in John Colmer and Dorothy Colmer, eds., The Penguin Book of Australian Autobiography ()

Mary Gilmore, Australian poet, journalist

(1865 - 1962)

Full name: Dame Mary Jane Cameron Gilmore,  OBE.