"With shield unsullied by a single crime, With wealth of gold, and still more golden fleece, Forth stands Australia, in her birth sublime, The only nation from the womb of Peace!"
— Australia

January 1, 1970

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Percy Russell (b. 1847), "The Birth of Australia", in The West Australian (19 February 1885); collected in A Journey to Lake Taupo (1889)