Flag of the Southern Cross

Flag of the Southern Cross is a poem written in 1887 by Australian bush poet Henry Lawson. The "Flag of the Southern Cross" refers to the Eureka Flag flown at the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria in 1854. A copy of the poem can found at http://www.ironbarkresources.com/henrylawson/FlagOfTheSouthernCross.html.

The victory song of the Australian cricket team—Under the Southern Cross I Stand—is said to have been inspired by this poem.^[1]

References

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Flag of the Southern Cross

↑ Stevenson, Andrew (2 January 2007). "Tune in for a new voice in victory". The Age (Fairfax). Retrieved 2009-07-26.

Works by Henry Lawson

Poems	Flag of the Southern Cross (1887) Andy's Gone with Cattle (1888) The Teams (1889) Freedom on the Wallaby (1891) Up the Country (1892) The City Bushman (1892) The Poets of the Tomb (1892) Saint Peter (1893) Scots of the Riverina (1917)

Short stories	The Drover's Wife (1892) The Bush Undertaker (1892) On the Edge of a Plain (1893) The Union Buries Its Dead (1893) Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster (1898) The Loaded Dog (1901) A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek (1901) A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father (1902)

Collections	In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses (1896) Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900)

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