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The Soul of Australia<\/span><\/h1>\n

\n

In the light of dawn, the break of day,<\/span>
\nThrough the waters chill they fought their way;<\/span>
\nLike their sires of old, to the Motherland<\/span>
\nThey came o\u2019er the sea, and they sprang to the strand;<\/span>
\nAnd the blood of the Angles, the Scot, and the Celt<\/span>
\nGrew hot in their veins as the war fire they felt.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the light of noon, in the bright sunlight,<\/span>
\nThey fought up the cliffs from height to height;<\/span>
\nAnd the sun shone down on that scene of strife<\/span>
\nWhere the \u2018Soul of Australia\u2019 came to life,<\/span>
\nAs the blood of Australians was shed on the sod,<\/span>
\nFor Australia, for Britain, Humanity, God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall Australia mourn for the sons she has lost-<\/span>
\nShould Australians weep? Nay! Great though the cost,<\/span>
\nJoy mingles with grief, and pride mingles with pain,<\/span>
\nFor our boys died like heroes, and died not in vain.<\/span>
\nAnd the \u2018Soul of Australia\u2019, new-born on that day<\/span>
\nWhen her sons died at ANZAC, shall never decay.<\/span><\/p>\n

J.H.M. Abbott (1874 \u2013 1953) … this poem was written in 1916<\/span>
\nmusic by Timothy Sherlock<\/span><\/p>\n

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