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Australian, and set the heart roaming away over our wild, weird wastes of sunburnt country, over our sweeping plains and ragged mountain ranges. Though he has painted his country in glory, he has not forgotten the grand old pioneers–the Irish mothers and fathers, who have written big deeds on the early pages of Australian history, a fact no true Australian will forget...The poems are full of things wondrously beautiful, while lines which are sparkling gems glisten here and there, on every page."
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