THERMOPYLAE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 3 July 1915, Page 11

THERMOPYLAE.

.Thermopylae!. Your splendour first . ' It was that fired our boyish-blood, . Andi raado: the bloom of burst '. .With':scarlet petals from.its bud.. -. The love of land-that naught will tame. Tiie pluck that, wrenches, fetters free,, Stand symbolised within your name,'. Thermopylae, . Thermopylae. ! When first, we learned the Spartan stand, .We felt as children feel ■ no more; Nor-watched the clock With tardy hand -.. ■Crawl:sullenly around 1 to four.': 1 We-felt, tho pride of manhood leap . . ■ .Alonj* our veins in ecstacy : When first wo drank-your glories'deep;-' Thermopylae,' Thermopylae. ' , ,i, .Wittyou: we'ffuessed such dauntless will,. Such calm, devoted courage died, , We -little thought Tour spirit still . - Wis burning hidden at our side. ' • AVe little .thought'a comrade's hand .Would shape a nation's destiny j-'/- .'iv And : give lis in a distaut- land ' - ... : The pride of ■They met .the cirelins foe's : demand For arms . tho. way the Spartans'did— V To come and . take them, hand to hand, The clamouring, clustered host was bid. Then .through,' the sweeping. spTay_ of lead -They rushed-the. furnaces of Hell,: , And drove their dripping blades ahead Till'one ; by one they fighting fell. Across the years our memory leaps, ' Again we - join them , as they : playAcross the. miles our vision peeps, : We see; them lifeless , as they .lay. A bunch:of boulders bullet stripped, >. A,',hillside thatched with still khaki, A sheaf - of.: bayonets, scarlet-tipped, , - , Our own, our own.'Thermopylae. ' / (From': the Sydney "Telegraph.") :' - Fran-ant Violets, fresh daily." Send your . friends an artistic posy of -violets packed in violet boxes; -2s. 6d.: and '35.. 6d. ■each.; special fancy boxes .of , Preesias, Carnations, and choicest' flowers, 55., • 65., Is. 6d. and 10s.'Gd., posted anywhere. Miss Murray, -Vice-Regal Florist©,' 36 Willis -Street,—Advt.- . King Victor Emmanuel of Italy possesses a collection.of .0ver.20,000 coins, which is said-to be the finest in Europe.