Australia

A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey

In the field uniform of modern wars,

Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws

Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away.

They call her a young country, but they lie:

She is the last of lands, the emptiest,

A woman beyond her change of life, a breast

Still tender but within the womb is dry.

Without songs, architecture, history:

The emotions and superstitions of younger lands,

Her rivers of water drown among inland sands,

The river of her immense stupidity

Floods her monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth.

In them at last the ultimate men arrive

Whose boast is not: “we live” but “we survive”,

A type who will inhabit the dying earth.

And her five cities, like five teeming sores,

Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state

Where second hand Europeans pullulate

Timidly on the edge of alien shores.

Yet there are some like me turn gladly home

From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find

The Arabian desert of the human mind,

Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,

Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare

Springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes

The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes

Which is called civilization over there.

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• The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Houses by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Greek National Anthem by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Grave of the Hundered Head by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Gipsy Trail by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Gift of the Sea by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Galley-Slave by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Floods by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Flight by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fires by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fairies’ Siege by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
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