<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Australia's Men</h1><p class="byline"> DOROTHEA MACKELLAR <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>Miss Mackellar is the daughter of Sir Charles Mackellar Chairman New South Wales. Acknowledgment is due Dr. George Cooke--Adams, formerly an officer in the Australian naval forces, through whose courtesy her verses are presented here.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">THERE are some that go for love of a fight </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And some for love of a land, </p><p class="line">And some for a dream of the world set free </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Which they barely understand.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">A drearn of the world set free from Hate--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">But splendidly, one and all, </p><p class="line">Danger they drink as 'twere wine of Life </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And jest as they reel and fall.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Clean aims, rare faculties, strength and youth, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They have poured them freely forth</p><p class="line">For the sake of the sun-steeped land they left </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the far green isle in the north.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">What can we do to be worthy of them, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Now hearts are breaking for pride? </p><p class="line">Give comfort at least to the wounded men </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the kin of the man that died </p></div></body></html> · Great War