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"SOMETHING OF VALUE"
-Eric

I can see the Southern Cross
While here below, bathed in light
The land safe, snug and tight is sleeping
Wrapped in and contentedness
No discordant sounds our rest
the gentle souls we've dispossesed are weeping

We took it all by the gun and the
By the right of our race and in the of our God
Though as outcasts ourselves, transported,
None knew better than we the of men

We it all in our hunger and need
Enslaved by our past and by our greed
And left them to beg for the scraps at our
While we called them drunkards and wasters and
They've been drowning, drowning in their
for the two hundread years

England's New Jerusalem
to the Dreamtime land the ships came
with human cattle in convict to bind them
In the grim just to stay alive
must struggle to survive
Few could see the prize before them

We had it all in the palm of our
A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new
One last chance to from the chains of the past
To something of value, build something to last

This ancient was a vast empty page
for the great writers of a brand new age
The was ours to protect or profane
A paradise lost, a paradise
Now me, is paradise here,
after two years?

So now, beneath the Cross
it's time to up the cost
of what gained and what we've lost forever
Though much has gone we replace
Those of us who love place
Together now, must turn and face the

So here's to us all, we're humankind
who through life mostly helpless and blind
To our courage and cowardice, our and pain
Our hundred steps forward, back again

Yes here's to us all, the wise and the
The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the
As we march to the beat of an uncertain
Stumbling what we may yet become
the brave new frontiers,
of the next two hundred