<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of the Torres Strait Islands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bold Torres, the sailor, came and went,<br>with his swarthy, storm-worn band,<br>he saw Saavedra's Isle to north-<br>to south a loom of land.<br>He left unknowing his name would live<br>through ages with big fate,<br>as the first to stem with broad-bowed ship<br>the wash of the Northern Strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round the western coast the Dutch ships crept,<br>seeking the hidden way;<br>some left their bones on that bare, west coast,<br>and the others sailed away.<br>Turned back, turned back, by reef and shoal,<br>twin guards of the narrow gate-<br>the path of the sun from the eastern seas-<br>they were mocked by the Northern Strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Year in, year out, the monsoons swept<br>o'er the isles of the coral shore,<br>The savage tossed in his frail canoe,<br>but the white man came no more.<br>No sail in sight at the flash of dawn!<br>No sail at the gloaming late!<br>Silent and still was the lonley pass-<br>Unsought was the Northern Strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rattle of arms and a roll of drums,<br>and the meteor flag flies free,<br>as an English voice proclaims King George<br>Lord of the tropic sea.<br>The parrots scream as the volleys flash;<br>the gulls their haunts vacate;<br>and the 'south-east' fills the 'Endeavours' sails<br>as she heads through the Northern Strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ever since then has our watch been kept<br>o'er the ships in the narrow way,<br>where the smoking funnels flare by night,<br>and the house-flags flaunt by day.<br>Ever the same strong south-east blows,<br>and ever we watch and wait,<br>the wardens we, in Australia's name,<br>the guard of the Northern Strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernest+Favenc">Ernest Favenc</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=390169" data-title="Song of the Torres Strait Islands de Ernest Favenc" data-description="Bold Torres, the sailor, came and went, with his swarthy, storm-worn band, he saw Saavedra's Isle to north- to south a loom of land. He left unknowing his name would live through ages with big fate, as the first to stem with broad-bowed ship the w..."></div> </div> </div>

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