Resource Sheet 1
Fulfilment (extracts)
The Australian Natives Association.
by J Brunton Stephens
We cried “How long!” We sighed “Not yet”;
And still with faces downward set
“Prepare the way,” said each to each,
And yet again, “Prepare,” we said;
And toil re-born of resolute speech
Now triumph, faithful hands and steadfast will,
For, lo! whose pomp the bannered orient fills?
Whose feet are these upon the morning hills?
Ah, now we know the long delay
But served to assure a prouder day
For while we waited came the call
To prove and make our title good—
To face the fiery ordeal
That tries the claim to Nationhood—
And now, in pride of challenge, we unroll,
For all the world to read, the record scroll
O Lady in whose sovereign name
The crown word of Union came
That sheds upon thine honoured age
The glory of a rising light,
Across our record’s earliest page,
Its earliest word, thy name we write.
Symbol, Embodiment and Guarantee
Of all that makes us and maintains us free—
Woman and Queen, God’s grace abide with thee!
The Mercury, 1 January 1901.
The Sons of Australia
Air—“The Gallants of England”
From the North to the South, from the east to the West,
The cry has gone forth, from our strife let us rest!
One in race, one in speech, from the shore to the shore,
The barriers that part us shall part us no more!
With Faith for our guide,
We will not be denied,
And the Sons of Australia stand fast side by side!
United we stand, disunited we fall:
Our safety and pride—“All for each, each for all!”
We strike off the fetters unworthy the free,
And our land shall be one from sea to sea!
With Faith for our guide,
We will not be denied,
And the Sons of Australia stand fast side by side!
We will tarry no morewe have tarried too long:
We have dared to be weak—let us dare to be strong!
Be the cost what it may, we will break with the past—
One in blood, one in fortune—a Nation at last!
With Faith for our guide,
We will not be denied,
And the Sons of Australia stand fast side by side!
Launceston Examiner, 25 May 1898.