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Rh HOBART

Man's love first found me; man's hate made me Hell;

For my babes' sake I cleansed those infamies.

Earnest for leave to live and labour well

God flung me peace and ease.

AUCKLAND

Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart—

On us, on us the unswerving season smiles,

Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart

To seek the Happy Isles!

ENGLAND'S ANSWER

Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;

Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.

Flesh of the flesh that I bred, bone of the bone that I bare;

Stark as your sons shall be—stern as your fathers were.