- Anzac Day
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- Our flag bears
the stars that blaze at night
- In our southern
sky of blue,
- And a little old
flag in the corner
- That’s part of
our heritage too.
- It’s for the
English, the Scots and the Irish
- Who were sent to
the ends of the earth,
- The rogues and
schemers, the doers and dreamers
- Who gave modern
Australia birth.
- It’s the flag and
our law and our language,
- Not the flag of a
faraway land.
- (Though there are
plenty of people who’ll tell you,
- How when Europe
was plunged into night,
- That the little
old flag in the corner
- Was the symbol of
freedom and light)
- It doesn’t mean
we owe allegiance
- To a forgotten
imperial dream:
- We’ve the stars
to show where we are going,
- And the flag to
show where we’ve been.
