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 Raised six score ducks and half a hundred geese, Well pampered ease its golden eggs may hoard Geese throng around, as well as on the board— If in tradition there be truth at all Here's the right stuff to save the Capitol Nor our fierce Yeomen and brave Vulunteers Anticipate a grateful nations tears, Unborn the Rooshuns Sydney rifles kill And troopers charged but in their tailor's bill Oh blazes? 'twere a goodly sight to see The town turn out its troops of Cavalry All daring riders on their lamp-post steeds Both man and horse unique in divers breeds, The moustache movement proves the only one The gallant Yeomanry has ever done——— When Rooshans come; shall follow Polar bears The shaggy races will descend in pairs And make reprisals on some stormy day On Perouse monument, in Botany Bay— Well did Macdonald (ere he cut) foresee, On that dread day a bloodless victory, The parole "sauve qui peut" proclaims their fate, The troopers rally round the turnpike gate; The pikeman opens, (tipped with ample pay), And running Riflemen point out the way.

Pass Vizier Deass who with aspect mild Could charm a servant or beguile a child, Low cunning was your forte; yea, 't is confest, Experience colonial forged you best, Amid the sneaks who pandered to the chief To court a courtesan or cloak a thief— All selfish interest thine,—I've yet to know What you have done without quid pro quo? From earliest times when gifts of early purl Poured on each mistress in delightful whirl, To when the more sedate and crafty Turk Sacked his Zenana to embrace a Bourke— For such as thou I have no time to spare