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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510678" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A School Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prelude to &quot;Stalky & Co.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>&quot;Let us now praise famous men&quot;--<br>Men of little showing-- <br>For their work continueth, <br>And their work continueth, <br>Broad and deep continues,<br>Greater then their knowing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Western wind and open surge<br>Took us from our mothers--<br>Flung us on a naked shore<br>(Twelve bleak houses by the shore.<br>Seven summers by the shore! )<br>'Mid two hundred brothers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There we met with famous men<br>Set in office o'er us;<br>And they beat on us with rods--<br>Faithfully with many rods--<br>Daily beat us on with rods,<br>For the love they bore us!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of Egypt unto Troy--<br>Over Himalaya--<br>Far and sure our bands have gone--<br>Hy-Brazil or Babylon,<br>Islands of the Southern Run,<br>And Cities of Cathaia!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we all praise famous men--<br>Ancients of the College;<br>For they taught us common sense--<br>Tried to teach us common sense--<br>Truth and God's Own Common Sense,<br>Which is more than knowledge!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each degree of Latitude<br>Strung about Creation<br>Seeth one or more of us<br>(Of one muster each of us),<br>Diligent in that he does,<br>Keen in his vocation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This we learned from famous men,<br>Knowing not its uses,<br>When they showed, in daily work--<br>Man must finish off his work--<br>Right or wrong, his daily work--<br>And without excuses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Servant of the Staff and chain,<br>Mine and fuse and grapnel--<br>Some, before the face of Kings,<br>Stand before the face of Kings;<br>Bearing gifts to divers Kings--<br>Gifts of case and shrapnel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This we learned from famous men<br>Teaching in our borders,<br>Who declared it was best,<br>Safest, easiest, and best--<br>Expeditious, wise, and best--<br>To obey your orders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some beneath the further stars<br>Bear the greater burden:<br>Set to serve the lands they rule,<br>(Save he serve no man may rule),<br>Serve and love the lands they rule;<br>Seeking praise nor guerdon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This we learned from famous men,<br>Knowing not we learned it.<br>Only, as the years went by--<br>Lonely, as the years went by--<br>Far from help as years went by,<br>Plainer we discerned it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore praise we famous men<br>From whose bays we borrow--<br>They that put aside To-day--<br>All the joys of their To-day--<br>And with toil of their To-day<br>Bought for us To-morrow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bless and praise we famous men--<br>Men of little showing--<br>For their work continueth,<br>And their work continueth,<br>Broad and deep continueth,<br>Great beyond their knowing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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&quot;Let us now praise famous men&quot;--
Men of little showing-- 
For their work continueth, 
And their work continueth, 
Broad and deep continues,
Greater then their knowing!

Western wind and open surge
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