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You ask me to be gay and glad	A
While lurid clouds of danger loom	B
And vain and bad and gambling mad	A
Australia races to her doom	B
You bid me sing the light and fair	C
The dance the glance on pleasure's wings	D
While you have wives who will not bear	C
And beer to drown the fear of things	D
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A war with reason you would wage	E
To be amused for your short span	F
Until your children's heritage	G
Is claimed for China by Japan	F
The football match the cricket score	H
The scraps the tote the mad'ning Cup	I
You drunken fools that evermore	H
To morrow morning sober up	I
	-
I see again with haggard eyes	J
The thirsty land the wasted flood	K
Unpeopled plains beyond the skies	J
And precious streams that run to mud	K
The ruined health the wasted wealth	L
In our mad cities by the seas	M
The black race suicide by stealth	L
The starved and murdered industries	M
	-
You bid me make a farce of day	N
And make a mockery of death	O
While not five thousand miles away	N
The yellow millions pant for breath	O
But heed me now nor ask me this	P
Lest you too late should wake to find	Q
That hopeless patriotism is	R
The strongest passion in mankind	Q
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You'd think the seer sees perhaps	S
While staring on from days like these	M
Politeness in the conquering Japs	S
Or mercy in the banned Chinese	M
I mind the days when parents stood	T
And spake no word while children ran	F
From Christian lanes and deemed it good	T
To stone a helpless Chinaman	F
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I see the stricken city fall	U
The fathers murdered at their doors	V
The sack the massacre of all	U
Save healthy slaves and paramours	V
The wounded hero at the stake	W
The pure girl to the leper's kiss	V
God give us faith for Christ's own sake	W
To kill our womankind ere this	V
	-
I see the Bushman from Out Back	X
From mountain range and rolling downs	V
And carts race on each rough bush track	X
With food and rifles from the towns	V
I see my Bushmen fight and die	Y
Amongst the torn blood spattered trees	V
And hear all night the wounded cry	Y
For men More men and batteries	V
	-
I see the brown and yellow rule	Z
The southern lands and southern waves	V
White children in the heathen school	Z
And black and white together slaves	V
I see the colour line so drawn	F
I see it plain and speak I must	A2
That our brown masters of the dawn	F
Might aye have fair girls for their lusts	V
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With land and life and race at stake	W
No matter which race wronged or how	B2
Let all and one Australia make	W
A superhuman effort now	B2
Clear out the blasting parasites	V
The paid for one thing manifold	C2
And curb the goggled social lights	V
That scorch to nowhere with our gold	C2
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Store guns and ammunition first	D2
Build forts and warlike factories	V
Sink bores and tanks where drought is worst	D2
Give over time to industries	V
The outpost of the white man's race	V
Where next his flag shall be unfurled	E2
Make clean the place Make strong the place	V
Call white men in from all the world	E2

Henry Lawson

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