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Preface.
defiance and despair in the tempest of land and sea. You shall listen to us there also. We will touch your eyes and lips with fire. No, we will never let you go, till you are ours and theirs! And you, too, O Sufferers, you too shall stay with us, and shall have comfort. Look, we have suffered, we have agonised, we have longed to hasten the hour of rest. But beyond the darkness there is light, beyond the turbulence peace. "Courage and be true to one another." "We bid you hope."
Sydney, Christmas, 1887.
