O radiant Land! o'er whom the sun's first dawning
Fell brightest when God said, "Let there be light";
O'er whom the day hung out its bluest awning
Flushed to white deeps of star-lustre by night!

"Australia", st. 1. Andrew Garran (ed.) Australasia Illustrated (Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, 1892) vol. 1, p. xi. Revised in How He Died and Other Poems (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1905) p. 1: "... Whitening to wondrous deeps of stars by night."