From The Bush

Henry Lawson

The Channel fog has lifted
And see where we have come!
Round all the world we've drifted,
A hundred years from "home".
The fields our parents longed for
Ah! we shall ne'er know how
The wealth that they were wronged for
We'll see as strangers now!

The Dover cliffs have passed on
In the morning light aglow
That our fathers looked their last on
A weary time ago.
Now grin, and grin your bravest!
We need be strong to fight;
For you go home to picture
And I go home to write.

Hold up your head in England,
Tread firm on London streets;
We come from where the strong heart
Of all Australia beats!
Hold up your head in England
However poor you roam!
For no men are your betters
Who never sailed from home!

From a hundred years of hardships
'Tis ours to tell the cost
From a thousand miles of silence
Where London would be lost;
From where the glorious sunset
On sweeps of mulga glows
Ah! we know more than England,
And more than Europe knows!

Hold up your head in London,
However poor you come,
For no man is your better
Who never sailed from home!
Our "home" and foreign fathers,
Where none but men dared go,
Have done more for the White Man
Than England e'er shall know! 

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