If you can talk with crowds and show your virtue,
Walk with the mighty, keep the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all can access you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of good work done,
Australia’s yours and everyone that’s in it
Will say, “With her, a bright new era was begun!”
Nasking 09/09/2010 Patricia, apt adaptation of Kipling’s poem.
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