"No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore.
[1] It was first published in The Australian Women's Weekly on 29 June 1940,[2] and later in the poet's collection Fourteen Men.
Each stanza ends with the same two lines (italicised in the original publication): "No foe shall gather our harvest/Or sit on our stockyard rail."
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature notes that at the time of publication, the poem "proved a remarkable morale booster in the tense days of the Japanese threat to Australia in 1942."
They also note that it "was at the time considered as a possible battle hymn, even national anthem.