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27
FOUNDER'S DAY AT HARROW
October 8, 1903
SONNET
School towering grandly on the green-leafed Hill
And Chapel whence so many prayers have flown
Heavenward, your calm, your hopes were once my own:
Once I was with you, safe from pain and ill,
Young, ardent, happy, pure in soul and will.
Now I steer onward, evermore alone,
See sweetest memories vanish with a moan
But feel your power, a holiest influence, still.
And Chapel whence so many prayers have flown
Heavenward, your calm, your hopes were once my own:
Once I was with you, safe from pain and ill,
Young, ardent, happy, pure in soul and will.
Now I steer onward, evermore alone,
See sweetest memories vanish with a moan
But feel your power, a holiest influence, still.
O Harrow, if my heart in those bright days
Had known life's meaning better than I knew,
What heights half-climbed a conqueror's steps had trod!
Still would the everlasting skies be blue,
The sinless nights divine with starry rays,
And all the living world aflame with God.
Had known life's meaning better than I knew,
What heights half-climbed a conqueror's steps had trod!
Still would the everlasting skies be blue,
The sinless nights divine with starry rays,
And all the living world aflame with God.
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