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All that we love in olden lands and lore
Was signal of her coming long ago!
Bacon foresaw her, Campanella, More,
And Plato’s eyes were with her star aglow!

— Bernard O'Dowd

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This is a rune I ravelled in the still,
Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.

‘Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!’

Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s
And sadly helpers needs:
And, till its burden goes,
Our work is—where it bleeds.

And our reward? In this wan land,
In clientage of Greed,
Despised, polluted, maimed and banned,
To wander and—to breed.

A new demesne for Mammon to infest?

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