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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Federal City</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!<br>They are seeking a site for a city, whose eyes shall be always blind,<br>Whose love for their ease grows greater, and whose care for their country less—<br>They are seeking a site for a city—a City of Selfishness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In ignorance, deafness, blindness, in the cities by the sea,<br>With waste of time and of money, and with local jealousy;<br>With Anti-Federal envy, and personal paltriness,<br>They are seeking a site for a city—while Australia moans in distress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the coast with the people crowding, where Australia’s danger lies,<br>By the hills and the clear, cool rivers, and under the softer skies,<br>Where the fat shall not melt, and the ranter grow cool in the fresh’ning breeze,<br>And the dwellers drivel in comfort and the boodlers swindle at ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are seeking a site for a city in the beauty spots of the land,<br>While I see so plainly, my children, where the Federal towers should stand!<br>Where the heart of Australia beats strongest and highest in desert air.<br>Make a site for a Federal City, and build you your capital there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the crowd should be drawn from the coast line to the great bush that cradled the race,<br>Where the bush might be armed and directed should the seaboard be lost for a space;<br>Where the waste should be watered and gardened, in the drought-land of Never Despair,<br>There build you your Federal City, and make you a paradise there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It shall be a world-wide object-lesson; it shall stand while a bushman is true,<br>And I tell you the bushmen will build it to show what a nation can do;<br>And there shall Australia sit queenly, and there shall her children be schooled,<br>For, I say, from the heart of Australia shall the whole of Australia be ruled.</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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