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                <text>&amp;lsquo;Because of her Father&amp;rsquo;s Blood&amp;rsquo;, &lt;em&gt;The Bulletin&lt;/em&gt;, 25 June 1908</text>
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                <text>â€˜As It Is in the Days of Now,â€™ â€˜The Old Squire,â€™ ancestry, bravery, courage, Dame Ruth, forebears, Henry Lawson (1867-1922), knight, loyalty, outlaws, poem, Sir William series, war. </text>
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                <text>Henry Lawson produced several interrelated medieval poems c. 1908 which &lt;em&gt;The Bulletin&lt;/em&gt; published. &amp;lsquo;Because of her Father&amp;rsquo;s Blood&amp;rsquo; is the third poem of the Sir William series. While the knight is away crusading his aunt, Dame Ruth, is left to keep things in good order at home. This is a poignantly nostalgic poem of courage arising from dire and severe need, wherein an elderly lady and a handful of domestic servants keep a large and rapacious band of outlaws at bay &amp;lsquo;against all the odds.&amp;rsquo; There is something to be said, it seems, for resolute and purposeful determination under duress. That is the core message here, where ordinary men and women - domestics, scullions and grooms, none of them martial or overly brave - combine together under the considerable will and fierce determination of Dame Ruth, and heroic deeds are enacted as a result. Looking to her illustrious forebears provides the catalyst for Dame Ruth&amp;rsquo;s heroism and bravery: &amp;ldquo;For a fearsome mistress she was to serve, / Because of her father&amp;rsquo;s blood.&amp;rdquo; And, extending and applying this &amp;lsquo;medievalist&amp;rsquo; performative metaphor to the national cause, loyalty and bravery are strongly emblematic of Australia&amp;rsquo;s attitude towards and defence of the British Empire in its foreign wars.</text>
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