At the dedication of the War! Memorial at Melbourne on Armistic: Day wien the Duke of Gloucester personally dedicated the Shrine and laid the King's \Rock, adding hi Poppies to the mass of tributes in the crypt, the Premier of Victoria Mor the first time read from manu. zeript a special ode by Mr. Rudyard Kipling entitled "Victoria's Shrine of Remembrance:
So long as memory, valour ani Jong as memory id fait Let "these stones side. by'
Heedless and headlong as their unyoked "seas Lavish 'o'er all, and set in stubborn Bride Judgment nurtured by accepted peace.
'Thus, suddenly, war' took them—seas Joined with the earth for slaughter.
in a breath 'They, scoffing at all talk of sxerifice, Gave' themselves without idle words Thronging as cities throng to watch Or their' own herds move southward with the year, Secretly, swiftly. from their ports they' came.
So that before halt earth had heard their name Hit earth had learned to speak tem with fear:
Because of certain men who strove each Through the red surf the crest man. might hotd, And gave their name for ever to 2 beach Troy's tale when When/the outflanking hour struck and Them clove and bar the drove-roads "othe north:
And those who, when men feared the:
last March flood.
Weslern war had risen beyond Stormed through the night from "Amiens and. made 00d, At their aad. cost, the brea that Then they returned to their desired The indly cities and plains where their nation "So long a8 sacrifice and honour stand And. their own sun at the ished light "The shrine of these their dead?
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