| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 62. Australian Federation |
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| FROM all division let our land be free, | |
| For God has made her one: complete she lies | |
| Within the unbroken circle of the skies, | |
| And round her indivisible the sea | |
| Breaks on her single shore; while only we, | 5 |
| Her foster children, bound with sacred ties | |
| Of one dear blood, one storied enterprise, | |
| Are negligent of her integrity.— | |
| Her seamless garment, at great Mammon’s nod, | |
| With hands unfilial we have basely rent, | 10 |
| With petty variance our souls are spent, | |
| And ancient kinship underfoot is trod: | |
| O let us rise, united, penitent, | |
| And be one people,—mighty, serving God! | |
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