"There is a land where summer skies Are gleaming with a thousand dyes, Blending in witching harmonies; And grassy knoll and forest height, Are flushing in the rosy light, And all above is azure bright β Australia!"
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Caroline Carleton, "The Song of Australia", in The South Australian Register (21 October 1859)
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