<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519295" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fatherland</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE BRAVE old land of deed and song, <br>Of gentle hearts and spirits strong, <br>Of queenly maids and heroes grand, <br>Of equal laws,—our Fatherland! <br> <br>Though born beneath a brighter sun, <br>Shall we forget the marvels done, <br>By soul outspoken, blood outpoured, <br>By bard and patriot, song and sword? <br> <br>Forget how firm and true our sires, <br>Still lighted by their battle-fires, <br>’Gainst kingly power and kingly crime, <br>Long struggled in the darkened time? <br> <br>How in a rolling sea they stood, <br>Where every wave was freemen’s blood,— <br>Shall we forget the time of strife, <br>When freedom’s only price was life? <br> <br>Shall Cromwell’s memory, Milton’s lyre, <br>Not kindle ’mong us souls of fire, <br>Not raise in us a spirit strong— <br>High scorn of shams, quick hate of wrong? <br>Shall we not learn, Australians born! <br>To smile on tinselled power our scorn,— <br>At least, a freeman’s pride to try, <br>When tinselled power would bend or buy? <br> <br>The brave old land of deed and song, <br>We ne’er will do her memories wrong! <br>For freedom here we’ll firmly stand, <br>As stood our sires for Fatherland! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Parkes">Sir Henry Parkes</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=519295" data-title="Fatherland de Sir Henry Parkes" data-description="THE BRAVE old land of deed and song, Of gentle hearts and spirits strong, Of queenly maids and heroes grand, Of equal laws,—our Fatherland! Though born beneath a brighter sun, Shall we forget the marvels done, By soul outspoken, blood ou..."></div> </div> </div>

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