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,
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 hyaena Mammon in his den :
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.