My requiem to Banjo Paterson and the Empire
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My requiem to Banjo Paterson and the Empire
by springer2003 » 29 Apr 2011, 00:08
In 1893, Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote:
The English flag may flutter and wave,
where the world wide oceans toss,
but the flag the Australian dies to save,
is the flag of the Southern Cross.
Anzac Day 2011; ‘A Requiem’ to Banjo Paterson and the demise of the Empire’
‘The English flag now flusters and waivers where the world wide oceans cross
But the flag the Australian dies to save remains the flag of the Southern Cross’
I hope that in a hundred years or less we as a people are not relegated to history like old banjo and the empire?
The English flag may flutter and wave,
where the world wide oceans toss,
but the flag the Australian dies to save,
is the flag of the Southern Cross.
Anzac Day 2011; ‘A Requiem’ to Banjo Paterson and the demise of the Empire’
‘The English flag now flusters and waivers where the world wide oceans cross
But the flag the Australian dies to save remains the flag of the Southern Cross’
I hope that in a hundred years or less we as a people are not relegated to history like old banjo and the empire?
"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".
----Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria, while negotiating the surrender of Alexandria to the Muslims, 640 AD
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
---- Manuel II Palaiologos, (1350 – 1425) Byzantine Emperor
----Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria, while negotiating the surrender of Alexandria to the Muslims, 640 AD
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
---- Manuel II Palaiologos, (1350 – 1425) Byzantine Emperor
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