<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Own Flag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They mustered us up with a royal din,<br>In wearisome weeks of drought.<br>Ere ever half of the crops were in,<br>Or the half of the sheds cut out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas down with the saddle and spurs and whip<br>The swagman dropped his swag.<br>And we hurried us off to the outbound ship<br>To fight for the English flag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The English flag, it is ours in sooth<br>We stand by it wrong or right.<br>But deep in our hearts is the honest truth<br>We fought for the sake of a fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the English flag may flutter and wave<br>Where the World-wide Oceans toss,<br>But the flag the Australian dies to save<br>Is the flag of the Southern Cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If ever they want us to stand the brunt<br>Of a hard-faught, grim campaign,<br>We will carry our own flag up to the front<br>When we go to the wars again.</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=344031" data-title="Our Own Flag de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="They mustered us up with a royal din, In wearisome weeks of drought. Ere ever half of the crops were in, Or the half of the sheds cut out. 'Twas down with the saddle and spurs and whip The swagman dropped his swag. And we hurried us off to the ou..."></div> </div> </div>

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