But your courage is still challenged. You will not fail us, Great Mother of Cities! We look to you for a lead. You _are_ going to root out your slum public-houses. You _are_ going to do more for the housing of your people. And in the larger sphere of the politics of the world you are still going to hold aloft the banner of freedom and righteousness. Send out your life-blood of brave endeavour, and we shall feel every heart-beat and respond to it, away under the Southern Cross, and wherever the Union Jack flies or English is spoken. VIII HORSEFERRY ROAD Hail to the brave! Who, going, come no more; Th' imperious call broke on their slumb'ring souls, And woke to action all their manhood strong, And bade them go, that Right might conquer wrong. Hail to the brave! Who, going, come no more. Hail to the brave! Who going, come again, Though our poor vision may not see their form; Yet in the silent hour, when thought seems deep, We hail them near, and holy vigil keep With all the brave, Who going, come again. J. WILLIAMS BUTCHER. VIII HORSEFERRY ROAD When the great war is over there are some places which will live in the minds of the Australians. Mena and the desert around the Pyramids has become a part of the perspective of many Australian lives. It is stamped there by many a long route march, and the training of the Australian Forces there is a page in the annals of the history of Egypt, which includes so much that is military, most noteworthy being the assembling, training, and fighting of Napoleon's Army at the same place. We had our Battle of the Pyramids, strenuous enough if only a sham battle. Heliopolis, with its old associations—the City of the Sun in the days of Joseph and the place of his marriage, was the centre for our New Zealand troops and also for many of our Australian units. Particularly will it be remembered by the thousands of sick and wounded who came there to our great No. 1 Australian General Hospital, which occupied the largest hotel in the world, the Heliopolis Palace. The classic island of Lemnos, both before our landing at Gallipoli and after our evacuation, loomed large in our life. Salisbury Plain with its ancient towns and its Druidical remains at Stonehenge also comes into the picture.