Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
Foreign News
November 12, 1887
The Labor Enquirer
Denver, Denver County, Colorado
What is this article about?
A poem by Henry Lawson published in the Sidney Bulletin, New South Wales, Australia, calls on 'Sons of the South' to awaken to revolutionary change, rejecting old-world errors and embracing a land belonging to the people, amid reports of unrest echoing revolutions elsewhere.
Clipping
OCR Quality
95%
Excellent
Full Text
At the Antipodes.
The rumblings of the revolution are audible even in the lands of the Southern seas. The following lines from the Sidney (New South Wales, Australia) Bulletin indicate a spirit of unrest as marked as that in this country:
A SONG OF THE REPUBLIC.
Sons of the South, awake! arise!
Sons of the South, and do.
Banish from under your bonny skies
Those old-world errors and wrongs and lies,
Making a hell in a Paradise
That belongs to your sons and you.
Sons of the South, make choice between
(Sons of the South, choose true)
The Land of Lords and the Land of E'en,
The old dead tree and the young tree green,
The land that belongs to the lord and queen,
And the land that belongs to you.
Sons of the South, your time will come
Sons of the South, 'tis near—
The "signs of the times" in their language dumb,
Foretell it, and ominous whispers hum,
Like sullen sounds of a distant drum,
In the ominous atmosphere.
Sons of the South, aroused at last!
Sons of the South are few!
But your ranks grow longer and deeper fast,
And ye shall swell to an army vast,
And free, from the wrongs of the North and past,
The land that belongs to you.
Henry Lawson.
The rumblings of the revolution are audible even in the lands of the Southern seas. The following lines from the Sidney (New South Wales, Australia) Bulletin indicate a spirit of unrest as marked as that in this country:
A SONG OF THE REPUBLIC.
Sons of the South, awake! arise!
Sons of the South, and do.
Banish from under your bonny skies
Those old-world errors and wrongs and lies,
Making a hell in a Paradise
That belongs to your sons and you.
Sons of the South, make choice between
(Sons of the South, choose true)
The Land of Lords and the Land of E'en,
The old dead tree and the young tree green,
The land that belongs to the lord and queen,
And the land that belongs to you.
Sons of the South, your time will come
Sons of the South, 'tis near—
The "signs of the times" in their language dumb,
Foretell it, and ominous whispers hum,
Like sullen sounds of a distant drum,
In the ominous atmosphere.
Sons of the South, aroused at last!
Sons of the South are few!
But your ranks grow longer and deeper fast,
And ye shall swell to an army vast,
And free, from the wrongs of the North and past,
The land that belongs to you.
Henry Lawson.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Rebellion Or Revolt
What keywords are associated?
Australian Unrest
Republican Poem
Henry Lawson
Southern Revolution
What entities or persons were involved?
Henry Lawson
Where did it happen?
Sidney (New South Wales, Australia)
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Sidney (New South Wales, Australia)
Key Persons
Henry Lawson
Event Details
The Sidney Bulletin publishes a poem by Henry Lawson titled 'A Song of the Republic,' urging the 'Sons of the South' to rise against old-world errors, choose between lordly lands and their own, and prepare for revolutionary change amid growing ranks and ominous signs of unrest.