To count the life of battle good,

And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood

That binds the brave of all the earth

My son, the oath is yours: the end
Is His, Who built the world of strife,
Who gave His children Pain for friend
And Death for surest hope of life.
To-day and here the fight's begun,

Of the great fellowship you're free ;
Henceforth the School and you are one,
And what you are, the race shall be.

God send you fortune: yet be sure, Among the lights that gleam and pass, You'll live to follow none more pure

Than that which glows on yonder brass:

CLIFTON CHAPEL

Qui procul hinc," the legend's writ

The frontier-grave is far away

Qui ante diem periit:

Sed miles, sed pro patriâ.”

7

VITAÏ LAMPADA

THERE'S a breathless hush in the Close to

night

Ten to make and the match to win

A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned

coat,

Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder

smote

'Play up! play up! and play the game!"

The sand of the desert is sodden red

Red with the wreck of a square that

broke ;

The river of death has brimmed his banks,

And England's far and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks :

"Play up! play up! and play the game!'

This is the word that year by year,
While in her place the School is set,
Every one of her sons must hear,

And none that hears it dare forget.

This they all, with a joyful mind,

Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind

"Play up! play up! and play the game!"

2

HE FELL AMONG THIEVES

"YE have robbed," said he, "ye have slaughtered and made an end;

Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the

dead :

What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend?"

"Blood for our blood," they said.

He laughed: "If one may settle the score for five

I am ready; but let the reckoning stand

till day :

I have loved the sunlight as dearly as any

alive."

"You shall die at dawn," said they.

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