20,000 voted in a poll.
FIVE BELLS was given the victory toll.
The writer and poet, Kenneth Slessor wote Five Bells in 1939. He was born in Orange, New South Wales and lived in Sydney from 1903 for all of his life until his death in 1971.
He loved cities and Sydney and he worked as a journo for the Sydney Sun and Smith's Weekly. From 1956 to 1961 he was editor of the Southerly magazine. He has a metal plaque in the 'Writers Walk' at Circular Quay, Sydney.
Five Bells - full poem at Poem Hunter.