Part 4 (1/2)

Ah! could the hearts that cleared the way Be here to-day!

A handful: yet they took their stand Lost in the silence of the land.

They went their lonely ways unknown And left their bones upon the sand.

E'en though we call this land our own 'Tis but a handful holds it still For good or ill.

What though thy sons be strong and tall, Fearless of mood at danger's call; And these, thy daughters, fair of face, With hearts to dare whate'er befall-- Tall G.o.ddesses and queens of grace-- Fill up thy frontiers: man the gate Before too late.

Sit thou no more inert of fame, But let the wide world hear thy name.

See where thy realms spread line on line-- Thy empty realms that cry in shame For hands to make them doubly thine!

Fill up thy frontiers: man the gate Before too late!

Prepare, ere falls the hour of Fate When death-sh.e.l.ls rain their iron hate, And all in vain thy blood is poured-- For dark aslant the Northern Gate I see the Shadow of the Sword: I hear the storm-clouds break in wrath-- Queen of the North!

[Ill.u.s.tration]

PREMIERS OF QUEENSLAND.

(1) SIR R. G. W. HERBERT: Dec. 1859--Feb. 1866; July 1866--Aug. 1866.

(2) HON. ARTHUR MACALISTER: Feb. 1866--July 1866; Aug. 1866--Aug.

1867; Jan. 1874--June 1876.

(3) SIR R. R. MACKENZIE: Aug. 1867--Nov. 1868.

(4) SIR CHARLES LILLEY: Nov. 1868--May 1870.

(5) SIR A. H. PALMER: May 1870--Jan. 1874.

(6) HON. GEORGE THORN: June 1876--Mar. 1877.

(7) HON. JOHN DOUGLAS: Mar. 1877--Jan. 1879.

(8) SIR THOMAS MCILWRAITH: Jan. 1879--Nov. 1883; June 1888--Nov.

1888; Mar. 1893--Oct. 1893.

(9) SIR S. W. GRIFFITH: Nov. 1883--June 1888; Aug. 1890--Mar. 1893.

(10) HON. D. B. MOREHEAD: Nov. 1888--Aug. 1890.

(11) SIR H. M. NELSON: Oct. 1893--April 1898.

(12) HON. T. J. BYRNES: April 1898--Sept. 1898.

(13) SIR J. R. d.i.c.kSON: Oct. 1898--Dec. 1899.