James Lister Cuthbertson Sea Poems

• 1. Australia Federata
  Australia! land of lonely lake
  And serpent-haunted fen;
  Land of the torrent and the fire
  And forest-sundered men:
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• 2. Wattle And Myrtle
  Gold of the tangled wilderness of wattle,
     Break in the lone green hollows of the hills,
  Flame on the iron headlands of the ocean,
     Gleam on the margin of the hurrying rills.
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• 3. The Bush
  GIVE us from dawn to dark
  Blue of Australian skies,
  Let there be none to mark
  Whither our pathway lies.
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• 4. To A Billy
  OLD BILLYâ??battered, brown and black
  With many days of camping,
  Companion of the bulging sack,
  And friend in all our tramping:
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• 5. The Australian Sunrise
  The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
  And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free,
  The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night,
  Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light;
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• 6. At Cape Schanck
  Down to the lighthouse pillar
     The rolling woodland comes,
  Gay with the gold of she-oaks
     And the green of the stunted gums,
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• 7. Ode To Apollo
  "Tandem venias precamur
     Nube candentes humeros amictus
     Augur Apollo."
  
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• 8. Australian Federata
  AUSTRALIA! land of lonely lake
  And serpent-haunted fen;
  Land of the torrent and the fire
  And forest-sundered men:
  ...

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