True America's Message

OUR manlier spirits hear and will obey 
The Word YOU waft Australia o’er the sea— 
‘Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!’ 
Not you, who, braggart, sent this wan array 
Of hell-ships vomiting their Will-to-Slay,        5
These armoured Hates and pallid Envies we, 
’Mid rattled mobs and flags hysteric, see 
Tarnish the chaste horizon of our Bay: 

But YOU we hear, our Comrades of the Cause, 
Who face hyæna Mammon in his den:        10
  And YOU, who dared your seas of blood to spill 
To drag the swooning slave from vampire jaws: 
Yea, YOU who freed unborn Australia, when 
  You singed King George’s beard at Bunker’s Hill.