All I ask you to remember, in this country of yours, is that every man, woman and child who even sees you with a passing glimpse as you go by, will remember it – remember it with joy, remember it in the words of the old seventeenth-century poet who wrote those famous words –
"I did but see her passing by
And yet I love her till I die."

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Reception at Parliament House, Canberra, in honour of Queen Elizabeth II (18 February 1963), quoting from the oft-anthologised lyric "There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind" by Thomas Ford — "Transcript 690", PM Transcripts (PM&C)

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