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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Australia's Forgotten Flag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the Cross of deepest blue,<br>With the bright stars shining through,<br>That was raised, my sons, for you,<br>On a skirt of purest whiteness long ago,<br>Long ago,<br>Long ago,<br>On the field of far Eureka long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the girl that sewed the silk,<br>Blue as skies and white as milk,<br>(Jeanie Scotland – of that ilk)<br>In the hut there by Eureka long ago –<br>Years agone –<br>Auld Lang Syne –<br>With her young dead digger sweetheart on Eureka long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the prayer the diggers said,<br>With the Southern Cross o'erhead!<br>It is whispered by the dead –<br>In the graveyard by Eureka whispered still –<br>Whispered still,<br>Murmured still,<br>By the shades that haunt Eureka murmured still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the brother and the mate,<br>In the bonds of love and hate,<br>Ah! the help that came too late,<br>When the diggers marched from Creswick to the dawn,<br>Years agone!<br>Long years gone,<br>Oh! the midnight march from Creswick to Eureka and the dawn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few, and taken by surprise,<br>Oh! the mist that hid the skies –<br>And the steel in diggers' eyes –<br>Sunday morning in September long ago;<br>And they grapple and they strike –<br>With the pick-handle and pike –<br>Twenty minutes freed Australia at Eureka long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the leader won his crown,<br>Though the flag was trampled down,<br>For it rose in Melbourne town,<br>Oh, it rose in Melbourne city that same year,<br>With a clear<br>Ringing cheer<br>Oh! it floated high in Melbourne that same year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the London strikers starved,<br>While old England's roast was carved,<br>And our loaf with them was halved,<br>Then they bore our flag through London wreathed in flowers,<br>Wreathed in flowers,<br>Wreathed in flowers,<br>In the dreary streets of London, brightest spot in those dark hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have stained it mongrel red,<br>And the stars are dull and dead,<br>With a northern cross instead,<br>Oh. the bloodstain like a red star long ago,<br>Long ago –<br>Long ago –<br>Oh! the red star that was bloodstain on the goldfields long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We're divided – we are curst,<br>By the paltriest and worst,<br>Parties striving to be first.<br>But the shots from far Eureka echo yet,<br>Echo yet, –<br>Echo yet.<br>And they rattle round my window in the wet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flag and banner of my dreams!<br>The time is not as it seems,<br>And the tide of freedom streams<br>With the spirit of the people over all.<br>We shall raise the bright flag yet,<br>Ne'er to falter or forget,<br>And 'twill go through many battles ne'er to fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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With the bright stars shining through,
That was raised, my sons, for you,
On a skirt of purest whiteness long ago,
Long ago,
Long ago,
On the field of far Eureka long ago.

Oh! the girl that sewed the silk,
Blue as s..."></div>
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