The following lyrics were set to a tune called 'The Gallants of England'.

Focus questions
NaQ3 According to the song what changes are going to take place in Australia?
NaQ4 'One in race, one in speech…' Who do you think the writer means by Sons of Australia and what is meant by 'a Nation'?

SONS OF AUSTRALIA

From the North to the South, from the East to the West,
The cry has gone forth, from our strife let us rest!
One in race, one in speech, from the shore to the shore,
The barriers that part us shall part us no more!
With Faith for our guide,
We will not be denied,
And the Sons of Australia stand fast side by side!

United we stand, disunited we fall:
Our safety and pride-"All for each, each for all!"
We strike off the fetters unworthy the free,
And our land shall be one from the sea to the sea!
With Faith, etc.

We will tarry no more – we have tarried too long:
We have dared to be weak – let us dare to be strong!
Be the cost what it may, we will break with the past -
One in blood, one in fortune – a Nation at last!
With Faith, etc.

Words by W. H. Dawson, Launceston Examiner, 25 May 1898, cited in Scott Bennett (ed.), Federation, Cassell Australia, North Melbourne, 1975, p. 110.