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Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria	A
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We cried How long We sighed Not yet	B
And still with faces dawnward set	B
Prepare the way said each to each	C
And yet again Prepare we said	D
And toil re born of resolute speech	C
Made straight the path her feet should tread	D
Now triumph faithful hands and steadfast wills	E
For lo whose pomp the bannered Orient fills	E
Whose feet are these upon the morning hills	E
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Farewell Sweet Faith thy silver ray	F
Now dies into the golden day	F
Farewell Bright Dream by minstrels sung	G
For She whom all our dreams foreran	H
Has leaped to life a Pallas sprung	G
Consummate from the brain of man	H
Whom now we hail in mortal guise and gait	I
Thought clothed with flesh partaker of our state	I
Made corporal in us now corporate	J
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Ah now we know the long delay	F
But served to assure a prouder day	F
For while we waited came the call	K
To prove and make our title good	L
To face the fiery ordeal	M
That tries the claim to Nationhood	L
And now in pride of challenge we unroll	M
For all the world to read the record scroll	M
Whose bloody script attests a Nation's soul	M
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O ye our Dead who at the call	M
Fared forth to fall as heroes fall	M
Whose consecrated souls we failed	N
To note beneath the common guise	O
Till all revealing Death unveiled	N
The splendour of your sacrifice	P
Now crowned with more than perishable bays	Q
Immortal in your country's love and praise	Q
Ye too have portion in this day of days	Q
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And ye who sowed where now we reap	R
Whose waiting eyes now sealed in sleep	R
Beheld far off with prescient sight	S
This triumph of rejoicing lands	T
Yours too the day for though its light	S
Can pierce not to your folded hands	T
These shining hours of advent but fulfil	M
The cherished purpose of your constant will	M
Whose onward impulse liveth in us still	M
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Still lead thou vanward of our line	H
Who shaggy massive leonine	H
Could'st yet most finely phrase the event	U
For if a Pisgah view was all	M
Vouchsafed to thine uncrowned intent	U
The echoes of thy herald call	M
Not faintlier strive with our saluting guns	V
And at thy words through all Australia's sons	V
The crimson thread of kinship redder runs	V
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But not the memory of the dead	D
How loved so'er each sacred head	D
To day can change from glad to grave	W
The chords that quire a Nation born	H
Twin offspring of the birth that gave	W
When yester midnight chimed to morn	H
Another age to the Redeemer's reign	H
Another cycle to the widening gain	H
Of Good o'er Ill and Remedy o'er Pain	H
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Our sundering lines with love o'ergrown	H
Our bounds the girdling seas alone	H
Be this the burden of the psalm	X
That every resonant hour repeats	Y
Till day fall dusk the fern and palm	Z
That forest our transfigured streets	Y
And night still vibrant with the note of praise	Q
Thrill brother hearts to song in woodland ways	Q
When gum leaves whisper o'er the camp fire's blaze	Q
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The Charter's read the rites are o'er	A2
The trumpet's blare and cannon's roar	B2
Are silent and the flags are furled	D
But so not ends the task to build	D
Into the fabric of the world	D
The substance of our hope fulfilled	D
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To work as those who greatly have divined	D
The lordship of a continent assigned	D
As God's own gift for service of mankind	D
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O People of the onward will	M
Unit of Union greater still	M
Than that to day hath made you great	D
Your true Fulfilment waiteth there	C2
Embraced within the larger fate	D
Of Empire ye are born to share	C2
No vassal progeny of subject brood	D
No satellite shed from Britain's plenitude	D
But orbed with her in one wide sphere of good	D
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O Lady in whose sovereign name	D2
The crowning word of Union came	D2
That sheds upon thine honoured age	E2
The glory of a rising light	D
Across our record's earliest page	E2
Its earliest word thy name we write	D
Symbol Embodiment and Guarantee	D
Of all that makes us and maintains us free	D
Woman and Queen God's grace abide with thee	D

James Brunton Stephens

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