<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519243" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ionicus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With failing feet and shoulders bowed <br>Beneath the weight of happier days, <br>He lagged among the heedless crowd, <br>Or crept along suburban ways. <br>But still through all his heart was young, <br>A courage, a pride, a rapture, sprung <br>Of the strength and splendour of England's war. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From ill-requited toil he turned <br>To ride with Picton and with Pack, <br>Among his grammars inly burned <br>To storm the Afghan mountain-track. <br>When midnight chimed, before Quebec <br>He watched with Wolfe till he morning star; <br>At noon he saw from Victory's deck <br>The sweep and splendour of England's war. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond the book his teaching sped, <br>He left on whom he taught the trace <br>Of kinship with the deathless dead, <br>And faith in all the Island race. <br>He passed : his life a tangle seemed, <br>His age from fame and power was far; <br>But his heart was night to the end, and dreamed <br>Of the sound and splendour of England's war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Newbolt">Sir Henry Newbolt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519243" data-title="Ionicus de Sir Henry Newbolt" data-description="With failing feet and shoulders bowed Beneath the weight of happier days, He lagged among the heedless crowd, Or crept along suburban ways. But still through all his heart was young, A courage, a pride, a rapture, sprung Of the strength and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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