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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408641" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How the Land was Won</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The future was dark and the past was dead <br>As they gazed on the sea once more – <br>But a nation was born when the immigrants said <br>&quot;Good-bye!&quot; as they stepped ashore! <br>In their loneliness they were parted thus <br>Because of the work to do, <br>A wild wide land to be won for us <br>By hearts and hands so few. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The darkest land 'neath a blue sky's dome, <br>And the widest waste on earth; <br>The strangest scenes and the least like home <br>In the lands of our fathers' birth; <br>The loneliest land in the wide world then, <br>And away on the furthest seas, <br>A land most barren of life for men – <br>And they won it by twos and threes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With God, or a dog, to watch, they slept <br>By the camp-fires' ghastly glow, <br>Where the scrubs were dark as the blacks that crept <br>With &quot;nulla&quot; and spear held low; <br>Death was hidden amongst the trees, <br>And bare on the glaring sand <br>They fought and perished by twos and threes – <br>And that's how they won the land! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was two that failed by the dry creek bed, <br>While one reeled on alone – <br>The dust of Australia's greatest dead <br>With the dust of the desert blown! <br>Gaunt cheek-bones cracking the parchment skin <br>That scorched in the blazing sun, <br>Black lips that broke in a ghastly grin – <br>And that's how the land was won! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Starvation and toil on the tracks they went, <br>And death by the lonely way; <br>The childbirth under the tilt or tent, <br>The childbirth under the dray! <br>The childbirth out in the desolate hut <br>With a half-wild gin for nurse – <br>That's how the first were born to bear <br>The brunt of the first man's curse! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They toiled and they fought through the shame of it – <br>Through wilderness, flood, and drought; <br>They worked, in the struggles of early days, <br>Their sons' salvation out. <br>The white girl-wife in the hut alone, <br>The men on the boundless run, <br>The miseries suffered, unvoiced, unknown – <br>And that's how the land was won. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No armchair rest for the old folk then – <br>But, ruined by blight and drought, <br>They blazed the tracks to the camps again <br>In the big scrubs further out. <br>The worn haft, wet with a father's sweat, <br>Gripped hard by the eldest son, <br>The boy's back formed to the hump of toil – <br>And that's how the land was won! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And beyond Up Country, beyond Out Back, <br>And the rainless belt, they ride, <br>The currency lad and the ne'er-do-well <br>And the black sheep, side by side; <br>In wheeling horizons of endless haze <br>That disk through the Great North-west, <br>They ride for ever by twos and by threes – <br>And that's how they win the rest.</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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As they gazed on the sea once more – 
But a nation was born when the immigrants said 
&quot;Good-bye!&quot; as they stepped ashore! 
In their loneliness they were parted thus 
Because of the work to do,..."></div>
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