Percy Russell

Percy Russell (1847 – after 1889) was an Australian poet.

Quotes

• Not ’mid the thunder of the battle guns,
  Not on the red field of an Empire’s wrath,
  Rose to a nation Australasia’s sons,
  Who tread to greatness Industry’s pure path!
  Behold a people thro’ whose annals runs
  No damning stain of falsehood, force or fraud,
  Whose sceptre is the plough-share—not the sword—
  Whose glory lives in harvest-ripening suns.
  Where, ’mid the records of old Rome or Greece,
  Glows such a tale? Thou canst not answer, Time!
  With shield unsullied by a single crime,
  Her wealth of gold, and still more golden fleece,
  Forth stands Australia, in her birth sublime—
  The only nation from the womb of Peace!
  • "The Birth of Australia", in The West Australian (19 February 1885). Appended to A Journey to Lake Taupo, and Australian and New Zealand Tales and Sketches (London: E. A. Petherick & Co., 1889)

External links

• Open data related to Q141169728 on Wikidata