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A PROPHECY When the city alight shall wait by night for news from a far-out post, And men ride down from the farming town to patrol the lonely coast— Till they hear the thud of a distant I gun, or the distant rifles crack, j And Australians spring to their arms | as one to drive the invaders back. I But they’ll waste their breath in no ; empty boast, and they’ll prove to I the world their worth. , When the shearers rush to the Eastern . coast, and the miners rush to Perth. | And the man who fights in a Queens- ■ cliff fort, or up by Keppel Bay, Will know that his mates at Bunbury are doing their share that day. —From Henry Lawson’s poems. THE PEOPLE’S ANTHEM I When wilt thou save the peopfe? 1 Oh, God of mercy, when? j Not kings and lords, but nations ! [ Not thrones and crowns, but men ! Flowers of Thy heart, oh God, are they; | Let them not pass, like weeds, away, ; Their heritage a sunless day. I God, save the people ! ■ —Ebenezer Elliott.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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180VERSES Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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