""I'm old Botany Bay; Stiff in the joints, Little to say.I am he Who paved the way, That you might walk At your ease to-day; [...] I split the rock; I felled the tree: The nation was — Because of me!"Old Taking the sun From day to day. ... Shame on the mouth That would deny The knotted hands That set us high!"
Mary Gilmore

January 1, 1970

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