according to the poet how can the draught end? poem name is in time of drought and poet name is Mary hannay foott? please answer me I will give you 30 points
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Mary Hannay Foott was a Scottish-born Australian poet, art teacher and newspaper columnist whose best remembered piece of work is the poem
She was born Mary Black on the 26th September 1846 in Glasgow, the daughter of a merchant who took his family to Australia when Mary was seven years old. She went to school in Melbourne and also attended the city’s National Gallery Art School. She had ambitions to teach and became a qualified teacher of drawing from the age of 21. While working as a member of staff at the Wagga Wagga school her interest in literature developed and she submitted a number of articles and poems to publications such as the
She wed Thomas Wade Foott in 1874, a man involved in the sheep industry as an inspector of stock. They lived for a number of years on a Queensland station at Dundoo but eventually ran into financial difficulties and, within ten years, her husband was dead through exhaustion and possible over-exposure to the sun. Mary got out of the sheep rearing business and moved on to Toowoomba and then Rocklea, in Brisbane, where she went back to teaching. A job as the women’s page editor on the Queenslander paper followed but she used the pen name “La Quenouille” for her work there. She had been writing poetry all through the previous turbulent years and a collection was published in 1885 called