Odorous limes

I've been reading old national anthem suggestions for research purposes. Hats off to the woman in the 1890s who wrote a potential anthem that begins:

Australia! Australia! Her wonderful climes
Hath eucalyptus and odorous limes.

I'm a little sad that was never taken up as a serious contender.

The anthem that eventually won, 'Advance Australia Fair', has a notorious line about our home being girt by sea, which gets a lot of comment (every morning I pass a B&B called 'Gert by Sea'). I don't see why; 'girt' may be archaic, but it's fairly obvious what it means. As it happens, the idea of being girt by (the) sea crops up in quite a few patriotic songs of the era, and not just in Australia. I've just finished reading a history of the New Zealand national anthem, which revealed that one New Zealand politician/poet took the idea of being girt by something to extremes. I give you the first verse of 'New Zealand' by William Pember Reeves, which was apparently considered as a potential New Zealand anthem in the 1920s (and would surely have been the only anthem in the world containing the word 'nostrils'):

God girt her about with the surges
And winds of the masterless deep,
Whose tumult uprouses and urges
Quick billows to sparkle and leap;
He filled from the life of their motion
Her nostrils with breath of the sea,
And gave her afar in the ocean
A citadel free! A citadel free!

You just don't get poetry like that any more, do you? Perhaps their nostrils could smell our odorous limes across the Tasman Sea.