Clifton Chapel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKALAL MNMNOPOM| This is the Chapel here my son | A |
| Your father thought the thoughts of youth | B |
| And heard the words that one by one | A |
| The touch of Life has turned to truth | B |
| Here in a day that is not far | C |
| You too may speak with noble ghosts | D |
| Of manhood and the vows of war | E |
| You made before the Lord of Hosts | D |
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| To set the cause above renown | F |
| To love the game beyond the prize | G |
| To honour while you strike him down | F |
| The foe that comes with fearless eyes | G |
| To count the life of battle good | H |
| And dear the land that gave you birth | I |
| And dearer yet the brotherhood | H |
| That binds the brave of all the earth | I |
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| My son the oath is yours the end | J |
| Is His Who built the world of strife | K |
| Who gave His children Pain for friend | J |
| And Death for surest hope of life | K |
| To day and here the fight's begun | A |
| Of the great fellowship you're free | L |
| Henceforth the School and you are one | A |
| And what You are the race shall be | L |
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| God send you fortune yet be sure | M |
| Among the lights that gleam and pass | N |
| You'll live to follow none more pure | M |
| Than that which glows on yonder brass | N |
| Qui procul hinc the legend's writ | O |
| The frontier grave is far away | P |
| Qui ante diem periit | O |
| Sed miles sed pro patria | M |
Henry Newbolt
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