Henry Lawson

“ And the bones of the dead gleam whitest,
And the sun on a desert glows —
Yet within the selfish kingdom
Where man starves man for gain,
Where white men tramp for existence —
Wide lies the Great Grey Plain. ”

“ Are crushed in a hell-born strife
Where the souls of a race are murdered
On the Great Grey Plain of Life!
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