The Song of Australia

"The Song of Australia" was written by English-born poet Caroline Carleton in 1859 for a competition sponsored by the Gawler Institute. The music for the song was composed by the German-born Carl Linger (1810-1862), a prominent member of the Australian Forty-Eighters. It is also notable for being one of the entrants in the plebiscite to choose a new Australian National Anthem, where it was preferred by South Australia, but lost in the other states to "Advance Australia Fair".