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When the wars of the world seemed ended and silent the distant drum	A
Ten years ago in Australia I wrote of a war to come	A
And I pictured Australians fighting as their fathers fought of old	B
For the old things pride or country for God or the Devil or gold	B
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And they lounged on the rim of Australia in the peace that had come to last	C
And they laughed at my cavalry charges for such things belonged to the past	C
Then our wise men smiled with indulgence ere the swift years proved me right	D
Saying What shall Australia fight for And whom shall Australia fight	D
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I wrote of the unlocked rivers in the days when my heart was full	E
And I pleaded for irrigation where they sacrifice all for wool	E
I pictured Australia fighting when the coast had been lost and won	F
With arsenals west of the mountains and every spur its gun	F
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And what shall Australia fight for The reason may yet be found	G
When strange shells scatter the wickets and burst on the football ground	G
And Who shall invade Australia let the wisdom of ages say	H
The friend of a further future or the ally of yesterday	H
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Aye What must Australia fight for In the strife that never shall cease	I
She must fight for her work unfinished she must fight for her life and peace	I
For the sins of the older nations She must fight for her own reward	J
She has taken the sword in her blindness and shall live or die by the sword	J
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But the statesman the churchman the scholar still peer through their glasses dim	K
And they see no cloud on the future as they roost on Australia's rim	K
Where the farmer works with the lumpers and the drover drives a dray	H
And the shearer on Garden Island is shifting a hill to day	H
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Had we used the wealth we have squandered and the land that we kept from the plough	L
A prosperous Federal City would be over the mountains now	L
With farms that sweep to horizons and gardens where plains lay bare	M
And the bulk of the population and the Heart of Australia there	M
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Had we used the time we have wasted and the gold we have thrown away	H
The pick of the world's mechanics would be over the range to day	H
In the Valley of Coal and Iron where the breeze from the bush comes down	N
And where thousands of makers of all things should be happy in Factory Town	N
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They droned on the rim of Australia the wise men who never could learn	O
Our substance we sent to the nations and their shoddy we bought in return	O
In the end shall our soldiers fight naked no help for them under the sun	F
And never a cartridge to stick in the breech of a Brummagem gun	F
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With the Wars of the World coming near us the wise men are waking to day	H
Hurry out ammunition from England Mount guns on the cliffs while you may	H
And God pardon our sins as a people if Invasion's unmerciful hand	P
Should strike at the heart of Australia drought cramped on the verge of the land	P

Henry Lawson

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