Excerpt: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop spiritedly identified her contribution “to the original literature of the colony”, when promoting her poem “The Star of the South” in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1842. Her new song was “an offering to the people of New South Wales”. She celebrated a newly formed society, populated by “sons and daughters of the land” who were privileged to inhabit “happy homes and altars free” where they found refuge and rest. Admiring Australia’s opportunities, Dunlop awarded the “moral bulwarks of a nation to this young country”.