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This poem is largely identicial to Ebenezer Elliott's untitled song lyric written for the Sheffield Political Union. The song is set to the tune of 'Scots wha' hae'. While Elliott's poem has five verses, the version published in the Geelong Advertiser and Squatters' Advocate has four. The first three verses of the Advocate's version contain minor changes from the original; the fourth verse is completely new. Like Elliott's, the Advocate's version is set the Scottish tune 'Scots wha hae'.
The Advocate's version is included within a editorial column, written by J. P. Fawkner, strenuously advocating self-government. Fawkner admonishes the 'Men of Australia Felix' to 'awake! arise! or be for ever fallen'. (Fawkner's column is continued in the 10 June issue of the Advocate.)
