The Echo Of A Ballad Sung By H. Plunket Greene To His Old School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDA EBECFFA GBGCHHA IBICJKA| Twice three hundred boys were we | A |
| Long ago long ago | B |
| Where the Downs look out to the Severn Sea | A |
| Clifton for aye | C |
| We held by the game and hailed the team | D |
| For many could play where few could dream | D |
| City of Song shall stand alway | A |
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| Some were for profit and some for pride | E |
| Long ago long ago | B |
| Some for the flag they lived and died | E |
| Clifton for aye | C |
| The work of the world must still be done | F |
| And minds are many though truth be one | F |
| City of Song shall stand alway | A |
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| But a lad there was to his fellows sang | G |
| Long ago long ago | B |
| And soon the world to his music rang | G |
| Clifton for aye | C |
| Follow your Captains crown your Kings | H |
| But what will ye give to the lad that sings | H |
| City of Song shall stand alway | A |
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| For the voice ye hear is the voice of home | I |
| Long ago long ago | B |
| And the voice of Youth with the world to roam | I |
| Clifton for aye | C |
| The voice of passion and human tears | J |
| And the voice of the vision that lights the years | K |
| City of Song shall stand alway | A |
Henry Newbolt
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