Analysis of True America's Message

OUR manlier spirits hear and will obey   
 The Word YOU waft Australia o’er the sea—   
‘Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!’   
Not you, who, braggart, sent this wan array   
Of hell-ships vomiting their Will-to-Slay,         5
 These armoured Hates and pallid Envies we,   
 ’Mid rattled mobs and flags hysteric, see   
Tarnish the chaste horizon of our Bay:   

But YOU we hear, our Comrades of the Cause,   
 Who face hyæna Mammon in his den:         10
   And YOU, who dared your seas of blood to spill   
To drag the swooning slave from vampire jaws:   
 Yea, YOU who freed unborn Australia, when   
   You singed King George’s beard at Bunker’s Hill.