Henry Kendall Poems

AUSTRALIA, advancing with rapid winged stride,
Shall plant among nations her banners in pride,
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Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time
When we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's golden prime;
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She sleeps—and I see through a shadowy haze,
Where the hopes of the past and the dreams that I cherished
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SINGER of songs of the hills—
Dreamer, by waters unstirred,
Back in a valley of rills,
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On the storm-cloven Cape
The bitter waves roll,
With the bergs of the Pole,
And the darks and the damps of the Northern Sea:
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With noise of battle and the dust of fray,
Half hid in fog, the gloomy mountain lay;
But Succoth’s watchers, from their outer fields,
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LIKE one who meets a staggering blow,
The stout old ship doth reel,
And waters vast go seething past—
But will it last, this fearful blast,
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SAD FACES came round, and I dreamily said
“Though the harp of my country now slumbers,
Some hand will pass o’er it, in love for the dead,
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HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists
To calm conviction in these days of strife,
Will learn that in this steadfast stand exists
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WHEN God drave the ruthless waters
From our cornfields to the sea,
Came she where our wives and daughters
Sobbed their thanks on bended knee.
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