Patriots
3/4/2000
Memorialise the Diggers,
rightly honour their sacrifice.
But, forgotten are other heroes
who gave all.
Our first patriots,
who fought for their people
and defended the soil that owned them.
They too stood their digs
and died in their thousands.
Waged a craft not learned.
For while knowledge of the fight was their's,
unknown, the art of war.
Their blood stains our rich red soil,
and everything,
everything our culture has accrued from this land,
came at their expense.
Cast to the side,
as the righteous spoke of the will of the Lord
to subdue another's land.
Cast out forever,
from their promised land.
These dark heroes.
Men and women who stood their ground and died.
Faced the guns of the invaders with their spears.
Peter
Peter Tremain
Winan-Gidyal Aboriginal Education Centre,
Charles Sturt University, Murray.
Ph 0260 516706
Fax 0260 516865
Fax 060 516865
------------------------------------------------------
RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at
http://www.mail-archive.com/
To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body
of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce
This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission
from the
copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under
the "fair
use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further
without
permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
RecOzNet2 is archived for members @
http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
