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And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, / That o'er the ocean many a weary day / That o'er the ocean many a weary day / Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay, / With faces stern and resolute, do stand, / Waking the desert's echoes with the drum-- / Men of Australia, wherefore have ye come?
To keep the Puppet Khedive on the throne, / To strike a blow for tyranny and wrong, / To crush the weak and aid the oppressing strong! / Regardless of the hapless Fellah's moan, / Regardless of the hapless Fellah's moan, / To force the payment of the Hebrew loan, / Squeezing the tax like blood from out the stone?