IN the greyness of the dawning we have seen the pilot-star, <br />In the whisper of the morning we have heard the years afar. <br />Shall we sleep and let them be <br />When they call to you and me? <br />Can we break the land asunder God has girdled with the Sea? <br />For the Flag is floating o’er us, <br />And the track is clear before us, <br />From the desert to the ocean, let us lift the mighty chorus <br />For the days that are to be. <br />We have flung the challenge forward: “Brothers, stand or fall as One!” <br />She is coming out to meet us in the splendour of the Sun. <br />From the graves beneath the sky <br />Where Her nameless heroes lie, <br />From the forelands of the Future they are waiting our reply! <br />We can face the roughest weather <br />If we only hold together, <br />Marching forward to the Future, marching shoulder-firm together, <br />For the Nation yet to be. <br /> <br />All the greyness of the dawning, all the mists are over-past, <br />In the glory of the morning we shall see Her face at last. <br />He who sang, “She yet will be,” <br />He shall hail her, crowned and free! <br />Could we break the land asunder God has girdled with the Sea? <br />For the Flag is floating o’er us, <br />And the star of Hope before us, <br />From the desert to the ocean, brothers, lift the mighty chorus <br />For Australian Unity.<br /><br />George Essex Evans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-federal-song/
