<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The King of our Republic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is coming! He is coming! without heralds, without cheers.<br>He is coming! He is coming! and he’s been with us for years:<br>And, if you should pause to wonder who’s the man of whom I sing—<br>’Tis the King of our Republic, and the man we shall call King. <br>No, he comes not to amuse us, and he comes not to explain,<br>With the bathos of the old things over all the land again.<br>The debatable and tangled, and the vain imagining<br>Shall be swept out of our pathway by the man that we’ll call King. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is coming! He is coming! He has heard our spirit call;<br>He’ll be greatest man since Cromwell in the English nations all,<br>And he’ll take his place amongst us while the rest are wondering—<br>Shall the King of our Republic, and the man we will call King. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you find him stern, unyielding, where his living task is set,<br>I have told you that a tyrant shall uplift the nation yet;<br>He will place his country’s welfare over all and everything,<br>Shall the King of our Republic, and the man that we’ll call King. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet his heart shall still be gentle with his brothers gone astray,<br>For the Great Man of Australia shall be simple in his day—<br>Modest, kindly, but unyielding, while the watching world shall ring<br>With the name of our Republic and the man that we call King.</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> <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=408846" data-title="The King of our Republic de Henry Lawson" data-description="He is coming! He is coming! without heralds, without cheers. He is coming! He is coming! and he’s been with us for years: And, if you should pause to wonder who’s the man of whom I sing— ’Tis the King of our Republic, and the man we shall ..."></div> </div> </div>

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