Neath Olde Southern Cross

NEATH OLDE SOUTHERN CROSS ‘Neath olde Southern Cross sparkling stars show a radiant view, for we will stand in this brand-new land, so far, far away from toil, trouble and strife of a darkness past, where oppressions reigned amidst religious persecutions of our faith, so, in order to escape to a brand-new life, our motherland we’ve left behind, for across the seas we came, where our journey took many in under sail and by fickle winds, and in doing so new trepidations and fears appeared and without much thought we overcome, now just feeling of an unknown for as we stepped ashore, and on strange tree near, a jackass laughed its peculiar sound indeed to us, and for all who came ashore that day in watching the tide come in, this foreign land we now call it home, to be a land of opportunity and of hope and dreams and from uncertain pasts left behind. Francis Cooper – Mac © February 2018