Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea

Lord, in this lull before the break Of Thy wide tempest, let us make Our ramparts round complete, With noise of rivets, whirr of wheels, And waters hissing 'neath the keels Of our star-guerdoned fleet! With workshops fashioning our might With bugles singing through the night I...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

Lord, in this lull before the break Of Thy wide tempest, let us make Our ramparts round complete, With noise of rivets, whirr of wheels, And waters hissing 'neath the keels Of o...

2. CHAPTER II

We can hold our own– 'Gainst us in vain all envious shafts are hurled If still we be The Sons of Freedom, 'neath one flag unfurled, Co-heirs of Fame and Wardens of the Sea, One...

3. CHAPTER III

When we are all at peace again–when the Great War is a thing of yesterday and tales of its thousand fights have passed into the history and folk-lore of the nations that took pa...

4. CHAPTER IV

We boast no more of our bloodless flag that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed rag from the storms of the olden time. From grander clouds in our "peaceful...

5. CHAPTER V

"From faithful lass and loving wife I bring a wish divine For Christmas blessings on your head." "I wish you well," the sentry said, "But here, alas! you may not pass Without th...

6. CHAPTER VI

The hotels and bazaars of Cairo buzzed through the last days of December and the early half of January with portentous and growing rumours of a powerful Turkish force that was m...

7. CHAPTER VII

With Death on the off-side lead, And Duty stern at the limber, The men of the British breed Strain sinews, steel, and timber. With jangling bar and trace, And trail-eyes all a-r...

8. CHAPTER VIII

On that narrow strip of ground above Gaba Tepe, the Australians and New Zealanders have been living, at this writing, for a full six months. They have burrowed the rugged hill-s...

9. CHAPTER IX

Strong to defend our right, Proud in all nations' sight, Lowly in Thine– One in all noble fame, Still be our path the same: Onward in Freedom's name, Upward in Thine.