Clifton Chapel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKALAL MNMNOPOMThis 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 turn d 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 |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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