AUSTRALIAN LEGENDS

TALES

HANDED DOWN

FROM THE REMOTEST

TIMES BY THE AUTOCTHONOUS

INHABITANTS OF OUR LAND

C. W. PECK

Sydney: Stafford

[1925]

Crimson bloom a verdant shrub,
    Set in every bower;
On clouded heights in coastal scrub,
    Hail! Greetings to this flower!
Crags and glebes it aye enhances,
All Australia it entrances,
    Radiant in its Power.

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