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Dedication:

'This poem is respectfully dedicated to William Lane,

For he, above all others, has laid broad and deep the foundations of New Unionism in Australia. He gathered together in the Australian Labour Federation the flower of the Queensland Labour Knights ; and I, a member of the Order, deem it but right to dedicate to him my humble lay. He goes to build a living poem in the Argentine - a Commonwealth and Temple of Humanity. It will be printed on the everlasting rocks ; its binding will be the eternal woods ; the wide-extending fields its pages ; free men, not slaves, its living types.

Though beaten in many a conflict, the chivalry of the Order will gather again its scarred and battered legions. Nor will the fight ever cease until the Citadel of Capital is stormed, and from its highest turret floats the blood-red banner indicating that Government is by Labour, for Labour ; for God and Home, Humanity and Fatherland.

Much as we regret the vacancies in our Table Round, which the withdrawal of so many Knights will create, much as we should prefer to see the settlement located in Queensland, I but voice the feeling of the Order when I wish him and his comrades God-speed in their effort to found New Australia over the seas. Long may it endure, a monument of their zeal and devotion to the Cause. This is the heartfelt wish of

Yours fraternally,

For the Emancipation of Labour,

Allaric.

Worker office, 5th September, 1892.'