"A Death in the Bush" (1868) is a long narrative poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.

After word of the man's death spreads people start arriving "to see their neighbour and to bury him."

When reviewing Leaves from Australian Forests in The Weekly Times a writer noted that "Mr. Kendall has a few more ambitious efforts, mostly in blank verse; but, although his verse is good, it is too redolent of Tennyson, and we cannot place these pieces on a level with his true and very welcome Australian lyrics.

Here again, however, the dramatization of grounds for doubt is imaginatively more persuasive than the concluding plea for faith maintained in a far away order.

The wasted settler, brought to the verge of death by disease, exclaims feverishly “Where is God?