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William Wallace.

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(For the Ballarat statue of him.)      This is Scotch William Wallace. It was he      Who in dark hours first raised his face to see:         Who watched the English tyrant nobles spurn,      Steel-clad, with iron hoofs the Scottish free:         Who armed and drilled the simple footman Kern,         Yea, bade in blood and rout the proud Knight learn      His Feudalism was dead, and Scotland stand         Dauntless to wait the day of Bannockburn!      O Wallace, peerless lover of thy land,      We need thee still, thy moulding brain and hand!         For us, thy poor, again proud tyrants spurn,      The robber rich, a yet more hateful band!

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