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His death re-

become

The realm of the circling sea, To be ruled by the rightful

sons of Blake

And the Rodneys yet to be. The poet himself was one of as the that company he sung modest band of patriots:

Whether their fame centur- ies long should cry They cared not over-much, But cared greatly to serve

God and the King,

And keep the 'Nelson

touch.

to

"The desire for self-realisa-

The sturdy vigour and patrio- tion," Sir Henry Newbolt once de-tic fervour of Newbolt's rhymes, clared in a lecture on the nature which are kith and kin to Kipl of poetry, the desire that we ing's verses, have made him. may have life and have it more like Kipling, the poet, not only of abundantly, is the impulse that England, but of an Empire that draws its traditions of sentiment minds us how fully he himself from the common English inheri- realised this impulse in his own tance, that honours "Nelson's life and character. An unusual

peerless name" as part of its his- shown în versatility was

the tory. Sir Henry Newbolt may could career of one who

pass not, as poet, have attained the

the from the long practice of

higher peaks of Parnassus, but law to the editing of a success- his ballads made an instant ap- ful literary and artistic journal; peal to the people. Their popu who could resign a professorship larity rests, not only on their of poetry at Oxford to

simplicity of form or their patrio- Official Naval Historian. If New-tic sentiment, but also on their

of bolt lingered in the library ringing expression of the heroic the scholar, it was equally char-spirit in man. The old ballads, acteristic of him that he was a the poet well observed, "are, keen sportsman, loving the open above all things, epic; they are air and the interests of the the heroic life of a people told in countryside. He put into prac-lyric episodes." His own ballads tical execution his belief that

are of the same brave kind.

* *L * "the poet draws so much of his power from sympathy with every activity of the human spirit." Niceties of Address

own activities, including those war services which brought A delicate situation seems him well-earned distinctions, al- have developed in Burma-where though various, were unified be- a number of the House of Repre- cause they were inspired by sin-sentatives, in defiance of all offi- gle devotion to the ideal of ser-cial propriety, has addressed vice. From his autobiography, letter to the Governor beginning as well as from his verse, we "My dear Cochrane." The nearest can learn how deeply he had parallel to that enormity which taken unto himself the code of one remembers was that of a conduct that he learned at his certain Captain Phillimore, R.N. famous school. The motto of At one time the Lords of the Clifton remained with him, so Admiralty had a kindly way of that his work, literary or practi-closing letters addressed to post cal, was that of the soldier for captains on distant duty by des- his country. Disagreeing with cribing themselves as "Your a complaint of H. G. Wells, that affectionate friends.". Phillimore he gave too much importance to thought that he could do no bet- "petty loyalties," he answered ter than reply in the same way, simply that loyalty was "a mat-so bringing down on him a re- ter of quality, not quantity," and buke from Whitehall. This he there was no doubt that his philo-acknowledged as follows:- sophy rested on the basis of a self-sacrificing loyalty to the larger causes beyond the individ- ual. In the modern age, per- haps, his creed might appear old- fashioned, "Victorian," but it At the other end of the scale contains a sincerity of idealism might be quoted Horace Walpole's by which we might well profit; a pathetic complaint against sincerity which also gave friend who had outraged the pro- strength, simplicity and attrac-prieties of intimacy by a formal tiveness to his writings.

address. My dearest Harry,

I have received your Lord- ships' despatch, and can assure you that I will never again sign myself. Your affectionate friend, Phillimore.

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It was, perhaps, no accident how could you write me such a that Newbolt found his strongest cold letter as I have just received self-expression as a poet in songs from you, and beginning 'Dear of ships and sailors, for to an- sir"?"

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