Australians must decide for themselves whether this was the land of the dreaming, the land of the Holy Spirit, the New Britannia, the Millennial Eden, or the new demesne for Mammon to infest.

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Cp. Bernard O'Dowd, "Australia", in A Southern Garland (Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., 1904), n.p. | Are you for Light, and trimmed, with oil in place? Or but a Will o' Wisp on marshy quest? A new demesne for Mammon to infest? Or lurks millennial Eden 'neath your face?

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Australians must decide for themselves whether this was the land of the dreaming, the land of the Holy Spirit, the New Britannia, the Millennial Eden, or the new demesne for Mammon to infest.

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