<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets of the Empire:Australia, 1902</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gallant is Spring along thy laughing hills, <br>With wattle’s loveliest scent and gleam of gold, <br>When the good rain hath quickened all thy mould, <br>And the hot musk thine air with incense fills. <br>Sweet is the chime of all thy tinkling rills, <br>And fair thy Summer’s glory to behold, <br>And soft is life for thee, the sunny-souled, <br>Far from the world and all its olden ills. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet ’tis not calm that builds the hero breed, <br>High hearts are tempered ’neath a stormy star, <br>Through want and danger doth the soul increase, <br>Stern rings the clarion voice of Angel Need <br>To bid thee vanquish self, and gaze afar <br>And save thy soul alive from Harlot Peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Thomas+Strong">Archibald Thomas Strong</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=348272" data-title="Sonnets of the Empire:Australia, 1902 de Archibald Thomas Strong" data-description="Gallant is Spring along thy laughing hills, With wattle’s loveliest scent and gleam of gold, When the good rain hath quickened all thy mould, And the hot musk thine air with incense fills. Sweet is the chime of all thy tinkling rills, And f..."></div> </div> </div>

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