"From distant climes, o’er widespread seas we come, Though not with much èclat or beat of drum; True patriots we; for be it understood, We left our country for our country’s good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country’s weal; And none will doubt but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation."
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Prologue, written for the opening of a theatre at Sydney (16 January 1796)
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