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But some there are will never quit that bleak and bloody shore,

And some that marched and fought with us will fight and march no more;

Their blood has bought till judgment day the slopes they stormed so well,

And we're leaving them, leaving them, sleeping where they fell!

(Leaving them, leaving them, the bravest and the best;

Leaving them, leaving them, and maybe glad to rest!

We've done our best with yesterday, to-morrow's still our own—

But we're leaving them, leaving them, sleeping all alone!)

Ay, they are gone beyond it all, the praising and the blame,

And many a man may win renown, but none more fair a fame;

They showed the world Australia's lads knew well the way to die,

And we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!

(Leaving them, leaving them, sleeping where they died;

Leaving them, leaving them, in their glory and their pride—

Round them sea and barren land, over them the sky,

Oh, we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!) C. Fox Smith

EAN brown lords of the Brisbane beaches,

Lithe-limbed kings of the Culgoa bends,

Princes that ride where the Roper reaches,

Captains that camp where the grey Gulf ends—

Never such goodly men together

Marched since the kingdoms first made war;

Nothing so proud as the Emu Feather

Waved in an English wind before!