Alfred Domett

Alfred Domett

Alfred Domett CMG (20 May 1811 – 2 November 1887) was an English colonial statesman and poet. He was New Zealand's fourth Premier.

Quotes

• It was the calm and silent night!
  Seven hundred years and fifty-three
  Had Rome been growing up to might,
  And now was queen of land and sea.
  No sound was heard of clashing wars,
  Peace brooded o’er the hushed domain;
  Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
  Held undisturbed their ancient reign
  In the solemn midnight,
  Centuries ago.
  • Christmas Hymn (1833), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Prime Ministers’ Office biography