# The Far Future

First published in The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal, 5 November 1859
AUSTRALIA, advancing with rapid wing'd stride, Shall plant among nations her banners in pride, The yoke of dependance aside she will cast, And build on the ruins the wrecks of the Past. Her flag on the tempest will wave to proclaim 'Mong kingdoms and empires her national name. The Future shall see it asleep or unfurl'd, The shelter of Freedom and boast of the world.
Australia, advancing like Day, on the sky, Has glimmer'd thro' darkness, will blazon on high, A Gem in its glitter has yet to be seen, [been; When Progress shall place her where England has When bursting those limits above she will soar, Outstretching all rivals who've mounted before, And resting will blaze with her glories unfurl'd, The empire of empires and boast of the world.
Australia, advancing with Power will entwine, With Honour and Justice a Mercy divine; No Despot shall trample — no slave will be bound — Oppression must totter, and fall to the ground. The stain of all ages, tyrannical sway, Will pass like a flash, or a shadow away, And shrink to a nothing 'neath thunder bolts hurl'd From the hand of the terror — the boast of the world.
Australia, advancing with rapid wing'd stride, Shall plant among nations her banners in pride : The yoke of dependance aside she will cast,@ To build on the ruins the wrecks of the Past. Her flag in the tempest will wave to praclaim, 'Mong kingdoms and empires her national name, And Ages shall see it, asleep or unfurl'd, The shelter of Freedom and boast of the world.
@ "I hope the above will not be considered disloyal. It is but reasonable to imagine that Australia will in the far future become an independent nation — that imagination springing as it does from a native-born Australian's brain."
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