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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Storm that is to come</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone -<br>When the nations fly at each other's throats let Australia look to her own;<br>Let her spend her gold on the barren west, let her keep her men at home;<br>For the South must look to the South for strength in the storm that is to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now who shall gallop from cape to cape, and who shall defend our shores - <br>The crowd that stand on the kerb agape and glares at the cricket scores?<br>And who will hold the invader back when the shells tear up the ground - <br>The weeds that yelp by the cycling track while a nigger scorches round?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There may be many to man the forts in the big towns beside the sea - <br>But the East will call to the West for scouts in the storm that is to be:<br>The West cries out to the East in drought, but the coastal towns are dumb;<br>And the East must look to the West for food in the war that is to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain comes down on the Western land and the rivers run to waste,<br>When the city folk rush for the special tram in their childless, senseless haste,<br>And never a pile of a lock we drive - but a few mean tanks we scratch - <br>For the fate of a nation is nought compared with the turn of a cricket match!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a gutter of mud where there spread a flood from the land-long western creeks,<br>There is dust and drought on the plains far out where the water lay for weeks,<br>There's a pitiful dam where a dyke should stretch and a tank where a lake should be,<br>And the rain goes down through the silt and sand and the floods waste into the seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll fight for Britain or for Japan, we will fling the land's wealth out;<br>While every penny and every man should be used to fight the drought.<br>God helps the nation that helps itself, and the water brings the rain,<br>And a deadlier foe than the world could send is loose on the western plain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a vision in days gone by and would dream that dream again<br>Of the days when the Darling shall not back her billabongs up in vain.<br>There were reservoirs and grand canals where the Dry Country had been,<br>And a glorious network of aqueducts, and the fields were always green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen so long in the land I love what the land I love might be,<br>Where the Darling rises from Queensland rains and the floods run into the sea.<br>And it is our fate that we'll wake to late to the truth that we were blind,<br>With a foreign foe at our harbour gate and a blazing drought behind!</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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