SHALL we sing of Loyalty <br />To the far South’s fiery youth? <br />Yea—but let the pæan be <br />Of loyalty to God and Truth: <br />To Man, to progress, and to all <br />The free things, nobly free, <br />Of which their loved Australia shall <br />The golden cradle be. <br /> <br />Hark! her star-eyed Destinies <br />Pour their voices o’er the seas— <br />Hither, to the Land of Gold, <br />All who would be free! <br />Here a diadem behold <br />For immortal Liberty! <br />Not for Old World queens and kings, <br />Villain Slavery’s outworn things! <br /> <br />Shall we sing of Loyalty <br />In this new and genial Land? <br />Yea—but let the pæan be <br />Of loyalty to Love’s command, <br />To Thought, to Beauty, and to all <br />The glorious Arts that yet <br />In golden Australasia shall <br />Like chrysolites be set.<br /><br />Charles Harpur<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-anthem-for-the-australasian-league/
