<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>El Mahdi to the Australian Troops</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, <br>That o'er the ocean many a weary day <br>Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay, <br>With faces stern and resolute, do stand, <br>Waking the desert's echoes with the drum -- <br>Men of Australia, wherefore have ye come? <br>To keep the Puppet Khedive on the throne, <br>To strike a blow for tyranny and wrong, <br>To crush the weak and aid the oppressing strong! <br>Regardless of the hapless Fellah's moan, <br>To force the payment of the Hebrew loan, <br>Squeezing the tax like blood from out the stone? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fair Australia, freest of the free, <br>Is up in arms against the freeman's fight; <br>And with her mother joined to crush the right -- <br>Has left her threatened treasures o'er the sea, <br>Has left her land of liberty and law <br>To flesh her maiden sword in this unholy war. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enough! God never blessed such enterprise -- <br>England's degenerate Generals yet shall rue <br>Brave Gordon sacrificed, when soon they view <br>The children of a thousand deserts rise <br>To drive them forth like sand before the gale -- <br>God and the Prophet! Freedom will prevail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343976" data-title="El Mahdi to the Australian Troops de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, That o'er the ocean many a weary day Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay, With faces stern and resolute, do stand, Waking the desert's echoes with the drum -- Men of Australia, wherefore h..."></div> </div> </div>

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