#Australians
I have sought and followed you, dr… Led out by a laughing wind on a tu… On crags amid clouds, in cups that… And deep in the gem-lit gloom of t… And on widespread wings where the…
Time, who with soft pale ashes vei… Of many a hope that flared against… To plant its heaven-storming banne… Has touched you with no desecratin… Your beauty wins a ripeness sweet…
Stupidity and Selfishness and Fea… Who hold enslaved the intellect of… Have found their victims here. We saw them go, alert to seek the… Where phantom Glory showered her…
Nurse not your grief, nor make obs… When I have shed this flesh I lov… Nor slowly toll the dull heart-bru… Nor carve my name in customary sto… But let the generous earth reclaim…
On a monument formed as a curving… By ceaseless waves, that break and… All human record is effaced: Only our love in brief defence Shall hold the billow in suspense.
The bulging cloud mounts lazily In shade where sunlight glances th… And sweeping lightly from the tree Melts indolently in the blue. The scanty grass-blades yonder sha…
Not till the sun, that brings to b… The myriad marvels of the earth And bids us look with wandering ey… On all that here about us lies, Has gone behind the hill,
The world, all busy round us here… Is still unchanged: but you are tw… The mind, victorious with the risi… Steps boldly and blithely through… On greener grass where brighter fl…
“Where shall we dwell?” say you. Wandering winds reply: “In a temple with roof of blue —Under the splendid sky.” Never a nobler home
O Merlin, how the magic from your… Bids the world flame about your id… And makes a marvel of the humming… The watchful bush, the starry-haun… Dear, do you know that all such ma…
A singing voice is in my dream The voice of Erskine, on his boul… Babbling and shouting till he shou… Stoutly against the heavier stream… No longer now my curtained sight,
Borne in the car along a crowded w… Sun-soaked, I saw the world like… Or phantom boats, upon a running t… Driven through flying fog at break… “The chain gang? Yes,” I heard a…
The Blatant Beast saw meadows, ma… Sunlit and gently asway, and held… Till each green blade grew rigid i… And ruddied with a glorious morn’s… Thou hast suffered; nor till Free…
A golden largesse from a store unt… Announced the ruddy day’s imperial… And woke a loyal world to jubilant… And hopes that boasted, madly over… Shadow and thunder from a dull clo…
His shatter’d Empire thunders to… A myriad hearts peal laughter as i… While red flags flutter on its rui… And living joy darts all the world… The imperial criminal, naked and u…
