Australia

A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey

In the field uniform of modern wars,

Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws

Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away.

They call her a young country, but they lie:

She is the last of lands, the emptiest,

A woman beyond her change of life, a breast

Still tender but within the womb is dry.

Without songs, architecture, history:

The emotions and superstitions of younger lands,

Her rivers of water drown among inland sands,

The river of her immense stupidity

Floods her monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth.

In them at last the ultimate men arrive

Whose boast is not: “we live” but “we survive”,

A type who will inhabit the dying earth.

And her five cities, like five teeming sores,

Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state

Where second hand Europeans pullulate

Timidly on the edge of alien shores.

Yet there are some like me turn gladly home

From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find

The Arabian desert of the human mind,

Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,

Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare

Springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes

The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes

Which is called civilization over there.

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• Robert Burns: Poem On Pastoral Poetry : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Posie : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Charms Of Lovely Davies: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Miss Davies: On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A-so big. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Wee Thing: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart: With The Lament On The Death Of the Earl Of Glencairn by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version by Robert Burns
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• Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him. by Robert Burns

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