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AUSTRALASIA

And grant that yet an Austral Milton’s song
Pactolus-like flow deep and rich along,—
An Austral Shakespeare rise, whose living page
To nature true may charm in ev’ry age;—
And that an Austral Pindar daring soar,
Where not the Theban eagle reach’d before.

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