AURORA AUSTRALIS 



I HEY, weary, wayworn, and sleeps 

 less, through the long withering 



night. 

 Grimly clung to your iron sides 

 till with laggard Dawn came the 



light : 

 Both heart and brain upheld them, till the 



long-drawn strain was o'er, 

 Victors then on your crown they stood and 



gazed at the Western Shore ; 

 The distant glory of that land in broad splen^ 



dour lay unrolled. 

 With icefield, cape, and mountain height, flame 



rose in a sea of gold* 

 Oh ! Herald of returning Suns to the waiting 



lands below; 

 Beacon to their home^seefcing feet, far across 



the Southern snow ; 

 In the Northland, in the years to be, pale 



Winter's first white sign 

 Will turn again their thoughts to thee, and the 



glamour that is thine. 



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