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THEN evening came, and

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it was quiet, the music of the song flew through the air.

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FACTS

Just over one hundred years ago died Rouget de Lisle, composer" of "Marseillaise," war hymn of French Revolution. Himself a Royalist, writing in hatred of German threat to his country, his song quickly became manifesto of revolutionists and Napoleonic armies.

Banned under Second Empire. Adopted as official anthem by Third Republic.

British political songs: "Lilli-bul-lero” used against James II., “Tipperary" in Great War.

appeals to the imagination of aware that this was a new dinner party in Strasbourg on artists in all walks of life in sound, perhaps even that April 25, 1792, with an idea in Great Britain? Football is more great fire of liberty was now day he returned to that same popular with the masses. Golf being set alight and that its has a greater hold upon the blaze would tear through brow. wealthy. Real tennis has a Europe for more than 100 longer and more royal lineage. years before a great war. Yet it is cricket, Englishmen came to damp it down in love to point out, and none of our own time,

a night. The words which he the Tsar, its notes smashed into drums of riven men as they these other games, that links

Bent over their vines, those wrote to that urgent tune are the Petrograd night as the Bol- drowned in their own blood; and to .the end together such diverse people as who heard the man singing let hardly revolutionary in content: shevik deputies in her parlour it cheered them Clifford Bax and Sir James their hands fall and remained rather are they an appeal to the played their parts as midwives of all things which they had cherished in their short lives. Barrie, Sir John Squire, and bent as though in prayer, for sons of France to unite in the of a new world.

Since the day, the Marseillaisé But now it is only a memory. Andrew Lang, Alex Waugh and the majestic song of that even face of Prussian menace; but

To deny that each one of us C. Aubrey Smith (of Cambridgeing was to be the doom of kings one of those sublime ironies

and autocracies and the birth of which history occasionally per- was first sung, history, when-

mits herself, they were, in fact, ever it has turned a corner, has knows secretly a piece of music and Hollywood),

to disrupt France, giving heart marched to its tune, for Citizen which enables him to pluck stars Mr. Fry suggests that there is

The western sun threw their and courage to the oppressed de Lisle invested with plumes from the farthest sky would be a mystery in the art of hitting long shadows in the direction of that they might the casic and baldric the tatterdemalions to deny a truth. But those are sweep into the dustbin of a ball with a bat that cludes even Prussia, against whom even

of revolt who fight blindly for scattered and private things: it history the pornocracy which

they feel but can hardly under- duced them all to a common de- fascinates men of letters. Mr. marching; and over the brow times.

nominator and expressed in stand. His song is the gay Fry is sometimes called the of the hill, to the south of them,

sound what, had hitherto been Like a fire through dry grass that black against the pale sky of

the: finest all-round athlete

windy day Rouget de uniform of revolution,

formless wonderings in the evening, came the uplifted Lisle's song, once it had first Indeed, the songs that men hends of individual men. England ever produced. He is one of the few amateurs who weapons of rude men crusading been sung in Marseilles some aing win their battles for them,

party with immortality upon his world's first Soviet Government, those two Albert Memorials of the Paris Commune of shining music: for more than four years memory; and in 1917, from the a song called "It's a Long Way "LA-MARSEILLAISE" natin nest of the fugitive bal- to Tipperary" was often the had been written in lerina Krupskaya, mistress of last sound to beat upon the car-

freedom too.

the greatest of cricketers, and now the armies of France were had governed them from ancient something whose importance was Rouget de Lisle who re-

for liberty..

derstood.

on A

tyranny.

A

of

short while later, swept north for the flowered pattern have ever played in a pro-

The irresistible song which to the capital, across all France emotion is more potent than the

HE has moved more fessional football cup Anal

they sang foamed down the and finally into the remotest austerity of intellectual plan

men than Shakespeare Even so, there will be found valley, and although only the corners of the world; a tone ning; and song has raised up some who disagree with his sound and no words reached the and an enduring hope to min the common man as sycophancy moved, or Homer, or Goethe, perhaps as many as the Bible. peasants, the message was unimprisoned by circumstance and has exalted the aristocrat. explanation.

Men who will not die for im has moved; and where the in- For the best writing about

From the anaerusts which peccable statistics will fall glad, fluence of Rousseau or of Vol- cricket is not to be discovered in

precedes its first bar to the last ly for an untruth if it be set to taire indirectly taught us to on the technical discussions about the

value freedom, he came out into LIBERTY Was dying fall it is an urgent and music.

march; and its fest vital song which has altered

the light of day and without. so- niceties of play. It is found in

much as a by-your-leave pluck- pocms and essays and stories moved to the tune of "The War the history of mankind as it

Song of the Army of the Rhine" has raced through the ages on- AND no other song in ed greedily at the heartstrings that are drenched in the peen-Later generations were. to call tireless wings to emerge in our

the long story of of mankind and gave it self- liarly gentle, peaceful, gracious "La Marseillaise,"

own time, fresh, vital and as tribulation has ever risen above respoct..

08 ön that atmosphere of the game, on

first the ankles of Rouget de Lisle's The man who wrote that song necessary

Let his epitaph be not only summer afternoons when the died of an illness which he miraculous morning when its titanic hymn. The graveyard sun throws long shadows across caught in the dampness of a notes, floating from the win strains of the "International" his own hymn but also the

O'Shaughnessy: the green, and the chime of the prison cell for debtors; but it dows of Mayor Dietrich's house and the ponderous drabness of words of the Victorian poet, church clock and the murmur of is we who are his debtors, for in Strasbourg, lit up the hearts "The Red Flag" have won no trees in the breeze are the only the song which he wrote knit of those who passed along the fights for liberty; they are the shabby appendages of its more sounds that break the stillness together the scattered forces streets beneath. ⠀⠀

self-conscious moments, not the. fathers from whose loins issued: except for the quiet runter for liberty, and forged a weapon: The French Revolution rode from them that was to scour knock of bat on balls Cricket, the world and endure for all inte history upon its back; to

measure in 1848 lboral the flow of life which inspired many people will maintain, is the time.

Europe slammed doors on the it to victory most literary of games" atmply

Yet men have boon moved by His name was Rouget do dark past; in 1871 it was the because it is the most aesthetic.blo His origins are almost as national anthem of the modern tunes more vulgar even than

One man with a dream, of

pleasure,

Shall go forth and conquer

a crown,..

And three with a new songʼe

ineasurg

Can trample

down.