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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Australian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The skies that arched his land were blue,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His bush-born winds were warm and sweet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet from earliest hours he knew</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tides of victory and defeat;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From fierce floods thundering at his birth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From red droughts ravening while he played,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He learned to fear no foes on earth –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The bravest thing God ever made!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bugles of the motherland</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rang ceaselessly across the sea,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To call him and his lean brown band</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To shape imperial destiny;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He went, by youth’s grave purpose willed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The goal unknown, the cost unweighed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The promise of his blood fulfilled –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The bravest thing God ever made!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know - it is our deathless pride! –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The splendour of his first fierce blows,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How, reckless, glorious, undenied,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stormed those steel-lined cliffs we know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And none who saw him scale the height</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind his reeking bayonet blade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would rob him of his title-right –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The bravest thing God ever made!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bravest, where half the world of men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are brave beyond all earth’s rewards,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So stoutly none shall charge again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till the last breaking of the swords;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wounded or hale, won home from the war,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or yonder by the Lone Pine laid,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give him his due forever more –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The bravest thing God ever made!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Henry+Ogilvie">William Henry Ogilvie</a><div class=q>
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His bush-born winds were warm and sweet,

And yet from earliest hours he knew

The tides of victory and defeat;

From fierce floods thundering at his birth,

From red droughts ravening while he played,

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