Biography
John Runcie was born in 1864 in South Africa. He published a poetry collection, Songs by the Stoep, in 1905 and had multiple poems appear in A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse (1907).
Sources
Runcie, John. "A Slumber Song of the Public Gardens, Cape Town." Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Treasury_of_South_African_Poetry_and_Verse/John_Runcie. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.