We must learn to take long
views, and to cultivate, above all, other faculties--those of patience,
endurance, and steadfastness. Meanwhile, let us go, each of us, to his
or her appropriate place in the great common task. Never had a people
more or richer sources of encouragement and inspiration. Let us realize,
first of all, that we are fighting as a united empire, in a cause worthy
of the highest traditions of our race. Let us keep in mind the patient
and indomitable seamen, who never relax for a moment, night or day,
their stern vigil of the lonely sea. Let us keep in mind our gallant
troops, who today, after a fortnight's continuous fighting under
conditions which would try the metal of the best army that ever took the
field, maintain not only an undefeated but an unbroken front. [Cheers.]
Finally, let us recall the memories of the great men and the great deeds
of the past, commemorated, some of them, in the monuments which we see
around us on these walls, not forgetting the dying message of the
younger Pitt, his last public utterance, made at the table of one of
your predecessors, my Lord Mayor, in this very hall: "England has saved
herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her
example.
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