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THEY BUILT AUSTRALIA


THEY BUILT AUSTRALIA

They back then sent them out to the penal colony
For some for the smallest crimes of that day
For being hungry and stealing a loaf of bread
Its reported a thirteen year old girl stole a
handkerchief so they thought she just had to pay
The richest then and the powers that be then
All went to church as to kneel and to pray
And tell God just how much they all loved him
But leaving those doors all of God floated away
I wonder if there are those in life still around
Who go to their place of worship on their day
And all dressed like they own half of the town
But in their hearts don't mean a thing that they say

Having said that ,, THE POEM

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England sent lots of their said criminals of the day
Out to a penal colony where they were to stay
A country where nothing they thought existed
And look at Australia today
They not only survived ever so many
Though the going there was more than just tough
They proved that they had special stamina
This lot supposed to be ever so rough
Australia today it stands so tall and proud
With its streak of a toughness hard to find
And all created by the convicts of yesterday
That had to leave their loved home land behind
They worked and they built all the hard way
From almost nothing then now a country so grand
They built on the rock with determination in stock
And without the today's supply and demand
With axe and with shovel,pick and crow bar
While at the same time often in ankle chain
A whole lot of souls from a time now called old
We will never know or see such hard work again
They alone they created AUSTRALIA
And did it in sweat tears and sheer grind
And England thought that they would all die
But that was so wrong how they then did find
AUSTRALIA you came from sheer hard workers
Thanks to them all as Australia is grand by far
All from a whole bunch of what England called convicts
Now England can put that very thought in a jar
AUSTRALIA was created from the ground up
By workers like again we will never again see
That as well as having sheer determination
They built a country as to one day again all be free ..

Terrence Michael Sutton
Copyright 2011
 







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