What though no tow’r
display,
Man’s work of other
days;
And, though her sun’s
bright rays
In the old time;
Gleam’d on no mighty
fanes,
Built by the toiling pains
Of slaves, in galling chains,
In the earth’s prime.
Hers is a new bright land;
By God’s divine command,
Where each industr’us
hand,
Willing to toil;
What though no song records,
Deeds of her martial hordes,
Who made, with conquering
swords,
Heroes sublime.
Gathers the fruits of peace,
Gathers the golden fleece,
And the fair earth’s
increase,
From the rich soil.
Hers is a flow’ry crown;
Science and Hope look down
On each new glitt’ring
town,
Whose structures rise;
And to Time’s latest
age,
Hers shall, the brightest
page,
Written by bard or sage,
Be, ’neath the skies.
***
APPENDIX.
APPENDIX.
LIST OF PLANTS
Collected by Ernest Giles, F.R.G.S.,
During his first and second exploring expeditions,
1872-1874.
(Arranged by Baron von Mueller.)
[Further arranged according to Flora of South Australia, Author: J.M. Black and Supplement (1965).]
DILLENIACEAE:
Hibbertia glaberrima, F.M., Fragm. 3, 1.
Mount Olga, Glen of Palms.
[Brassicaceae =] CRUCIFERAE:
Menkea sphaerocarpa, F.M., Fragm. 8, 223.
Near Mount Olga.
[Lepidium oxytrichum] Lepidium papillosum, F.M. in
Linnaea 25, 370.
Between the Alberga and Mount Olga.
[Lepidium rotundum] Lepidium phlebopetalum, F.M.,
Plants of Vict. 1,
47.
Between the River Finke and Lake
Eyre.
[Blennodia trisecta] Sisymbrium trisectum, F.M., Transact.
Vict. Inst. 1,
114.
Near Lake Eyre and Mount Olga.
[Capparidaceae] CAPPARIDEAE:
Cleome viscosa, L. Sp. Pl., 938.
Rawlinson’s Range.
[Capparis mitchellii] Capparis Mitchelli, Lindl. in
Mitch. Three Exped.
1, 315.
MacDonnell’s Range, Mount
Udor.
[Pittosporaceae] PITTOSPOREAE:
Pittosporum phillyroides, Cand. Prodr. 1, 347.
Between the Alberga and Mount Olga,
also on Gosse’s Range.
DROSERACEAE:
[Drosera indica] Drosera Indici, L. Sp., 403.
Rawlinson’s Range.
[?] Drosera Burmanni, Vahl., Symb. 3, 50.
MacDonnell’s Range.
[Polygalaceae] POLYGALEAE:
[?] Comesperma silvestre, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop.
Austr., 342.
Between MacDonnell’s and Gill’s
Ranges.
VIOLACEAE: