And wherefore have they come, this warlike band,
That o'er the ocean many a weary day
Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay,
With faces stern and resolute, do stand,
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Great poem from a great man full of human feelings and human concern. A poet with justice and against injustice, with high v values. His Australian fellowmen would get into a fight not of their own and with no right to fight the people of the Sudan for the sake of the puppet Khedive of Egypt.
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Great poem from a great man full of human feelings and human concern. A poet with justice and against injustice, with high v values. His Australian fellowmen would get into a fight not of their own and with no right to fight the people of the Sudan for the sake of the puppet Khedive of Egypt.