We are the sons of Australia, Of the men who fashioned the … - Mary Gilmore

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We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Mary Gilmore

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About Mary Gilmore

Dame Mary Jean Gilmore DBE (née Cameron; 16 August 1865 – 3 December 1962) was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry.

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Birth Name: Mary Jean Cameron

Alternative Names: Dame Mary Jean Gilmore • Dame Mary Jane Gilmore • Cameron

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William Butler Yeats Alfred Tennyson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lord Byron Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I am not very patient, Yet patient I must be
With him beside my pillow And the babe upon my knee.
[...]
Strange that I was given
Thoughts that soar to heaven,
Yet must I sit and keep
Children in their sleep!

I shall go as my father went,
A thousand plans in his mind,
With something still held unspent
When death lets fall the blind.I shall go as my mother went,
The ink still wet on the line:
I shall pay no rust as rent
For the house that is mine.

Never admit the pain,
Bury it deep;
Only the weak complain.
Complaint is cheap.

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