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either wholly or in part without previous WHEN evening came, and

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Aesthetic Cricket

Mr. Fry suggests that there lo

a mystery in the art of hitting

it was quiet, the music

SONG CHANGED

LIFE

By Philip Jordan

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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 H., "Tipperary" in Great Wor

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

A MARSEILLAISE" satin nest of the fugitive bal to Tipperary" was often the had been written in lerina Krupskaya, mistress of last sound to beat upon the ear-

a night. The words which he the Tsar, its notes smashed into drums of riven men as they Bent over their vines, those wrote to that urgent tune are the Petrograd night as the Bol- drowned in their own blood; and who heard the man singing let hardly revolutionary in content: shevik deputies in her parlour it cheered them to the end 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.. bent as though in prayer, for sons of France to unite in the of a new world.

freedom too.

even

To deny that each one of us

of the song flew through the air. Although it was Why is it, inquires C. B. Fry, gentle at first, and came up obscure and as unimportant as the English athlete, that, more the wind from far away, the his end. All that matters to us LTD. than all other games, cricket peasants who heard it were is that he stepped out of a appeals to the imagination of aware that this was a new dinner party in Strasbourg on ♦♦arlists 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 his head; and that the next popular with the masses. Golf being set alight and that its day he returned to that same has a greater hold upon the blaze would tear through brow,

party with immortality upon his 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. these other games, that links together such diverse people as Clifford Bax and Sir James Barrie, Sir John Squire and Andrew Lang, Alec Waugh and the majestic song of that even- face of Prussian menace; but Since the day the Marseillaise But now it is only a memory. C. Aubrey Smith (of Cambridge ing was to be the doom of kings one of those sublime ironies

which history occasionally per- was first sung, history, when- and Hollywood).

and autocracies and the birth of mits herself, they were, in fact, ever it has turned a corner, has knows secretly a piece of music to disrupt France, giving heart marched to its tune, for Citizen which enables him to pluck stars The western sun threw their and courage to the oppressed de Lisle invested with plumes from the farthest sky would be long shadows in the direction of that they might the easier and baldrie the tatterdemalions to deny a truth. But those are a ball with a bat that cludes even Prussia, against whom

sweep into the dustbin of

of revolt who fight blindly for scattered and private things: it. The pornocracy which history the greatest of cricketers, and now the armies of France were had governed them from meet something whose importance was Rouget de Lisle who re- fascinates men of letters. Mr. marching; and over the brow times.

they feel but can hardly under- duced them all to a common de-

nominator and Fry is sometimes called the of the hill, to the south of them,

stand. His song is the gay

expressed in Like a fire through dry grass

sound what had hitherto been finest all-round athlete that black against the pale sky of

ол a windy day Rouget.de uniform of revolution.

formless wonderings in the England ever produced. He in the evening, came the uplifted Lisle's song, once it had first Indeed, the songs that men

heads of individual men. one of the fow amateurs who weapons of rude men crusading been sung in Marseilles some sing win their battles for them,

for liberty.

short while later, swept north for the flowered pattern of The irresistible song which to the capital, across all France emotion is more potent than the they sang foamed down the and finally into the remotest austerity of intellectual plan-i HE has moved more valley, and although only the corners of the world; a"tonic ring; and song has raised up

men than Shakespeare sound and no words reached the and an enduring hope to men the common man as sycophancy moved, or Homer, or Goethe, peasants, the message was un- imprisoned by circumstance and has exalted the aristocrats perhaps as many as the Bible derstood.

tyranny. For the best writing about

Men who will not die for im has moved; and where the in-. From the anacruats 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 jy for an untruth if it be set to taire indirectly taught us to technical discussions about the

LIB

IBERTY was on the dying fall it is an urgent and music.

value freedom, he came out into march; and its feet vital song which has altered niceties of play. It is found-in-

the light of day and without so- poems and essays and stories moved to the tune of "The War the history of mankind as it

much as a by-your-leave pluck- that are drenched in the pecu-Later generations were to call tireless wings to emerge in our Song of the Army of the Rhine.”.

AND no other song In ed greedily at the heartstrings. the long story of of mankind and gave it self- Harly gentle, peaceful, gracious it "La Marseillaise.".

own time, fresh, vital and as tribulation has ever risen above respect. atmosphere of the game, on

The man who wrote that song necessary 18 on that firet the ankles of Rouget de Lisle's

Let his epitaph be not only aummer, 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 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,

O'Shaughnessy: 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

One man with a dream, of 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

pleasure, shabby appendages of its more sounds that break the stillness together the scattered forces streets beneath.

ne for liberty, and forged a weapon except for the quiet regular.

Trom them that was to scour knock of but on ball. Cricket, the world and enduro for all many people will maintain, is the time. most literary of gumos simply, Ur

His name was Rouget de dark past; in 1871 It was the Yet men have been moved by because it is the most aesthetic. Liale. His origine are almost as national anthem of the modern tunti more vulgar even thun

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have ever played in a pro- fessional football

cup final, Even so, there will be found who disagree with his explanation.

some

has raced through the ages on

The French Revolution rode self-conscious moments, not the measure in 1848 liberal the flow of life which inspired into history upon it back to fathers from whose loins Issuci Europe slammed doors on the it to victory.

Shall go forth and conquer".

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And threo with a new song's“

Measure

Can trample a kingdom:

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