An Australian Christmas Song

This amazing piece of history is from the National Library of Australia's digital collection.

Our Australian Christmas Song
Spagnoletti, Ernesto. [1860 - 1869]

Verse 1
We welcome thee old Christmas to this happy land of ours.
We welcome thee with sunshine, We'll strew thy path with flowers.
Our beautiful birds shall greet thee,glad welcome shall thee sing.
And wild flowers fragrance meet thee, borne on the Zephyr's wing
We welcome the old Christmas, To this happy land of ours.
We welcome thee with sunshine. We'll strew thy path with flowers.

Verse 2
We have no wreath of holly, no branch of mistletoe,
but we've a bush for Christma, and smiling lips below.
No fireside cheer we offer, no yule log blazing high,
but the sunny smile of heaven beams in our summer sky.
We welcome the old Christmas, To this happy land of ours.
We welcome thee with sunshing. We'll strew thy path with flowers.

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