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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let others make the songs of love<br>For our young struggling nation;<br>But I will sing while e’er I live<br>The Songs of Irrigation;<br>For while the white man shall beget<br>The white man’s son and daughter,<br>The two most precious things for us<br>Shall still be wheat and water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’ve been drought-ruined in the West—<br>And ever in my dreaming<br>I see wide miles of waving crops<br>And sheets of water gleaming,<br>On plains where fortune died of thirst<br>When my brave father sought her,<br>I see the painted barges pass<br>Along the winding water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the glorious scheme’s afoot,<br>Our country to deliver<br>From drought and death on blazing waste,<br>By long neglected river.<br>You’ll see the boodlers of the world<br>Rush in from every quarter:<br>They want the land,—the gold-reefed sand,<br>And now they’ll want the water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright intellects will plan the dykes—<br>With little gold to gild them—<br>Bright intellects will plan the dykes,<br>The people pay to build them;<br>And when we’ve made our long canals,<br>And lakes in every quarter,<br>Then ours would be the “guarantee”—<br>The Trust would own the water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They’d hold the bores and aqueducts,<br>The water-ways and barges,<br>And we would live, or we would starve<br>According to their charges;<br>From all the Edens in the West<br>They’d bar our sons and daughters—<br>They’d hold the land, ten leagues or so,<br>Each side the rippling waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But those who fight to hold their own,<br>The Lord and time delivers;<br>As we have held our railway lines,<br>So we shall hold our rivers.<br>We’ll find the money, as was found<br>The money spent in slaughter,<br>To build our dykes and build our dams,<br>And we shall own the water.</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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For our young struggling nation;
But I will sing while e’er I live
The Songs of Irrigation;
For while the white man shall beget
The white man’s son and daughter,
The two most precious things for us
Shall still..."></div>
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