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MADAME ADOLF: "Confidentially, my dear, I agree with you. But why not walk out with him and see

how you get along?"

THIS SONG

LIFE

YOUR

WHEN evening came, and

W

it was quiet, the music

By

Philip Jordan

of the song flew through the air. Although it was gentle at first, and came up obscure and as unimportant as the wind from far away, the his end. All that matters to us

peasants who heard it were is that he stepped out of a

aware that this was a new dinner-party-in-Strasbourg-on- sound, perhaps even that April 25, 1792, with an idea in 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

brow.

CHANGED

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.

has a greater hold upon the blaze would tear through party with Immortality upon his world's first Soviet Government, those two Albert Memorials of wealthy, Real tennis has 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

our own time.

love to point out, and none of these other games, that links together such diverse people as Clifford Bax and Sir James

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" satin neat of the fugitive-bal--to-Tipperary-was-- often-the- had been written in lerina Krupskaya, mistress of last sound to beat upon the car- as they a night. The words which he the Tsar, Its notes smushed into drums of riven men 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 who heard the man singing let hardly revolutionary in content: shevik deputies in her parlour it cheered them their hands fall and remained rather are they an appeal to the played their parts as midwives of all things which they had Barrie, Sir John Squire and bent as though in prayer, for sons of France to unite in the of a new world. Andrew Lang, Alec Waugh and the majestic song of that even--face of Prussian menace; but which history occasionally per-

Since the day the Marseillaise

C. Aubrey Smith (of Cambridge | Ing was to be the doom of kings one of these sublime ironies was first sung, history, when-

and Hollywood).

Mr. Fry suggests that there is a mystery in the art of hitting

a ball with a bat that eludes even

and autocracies and the birth of freedom too,

The western sun threw their long shadows in the direction of Prusain, against whom even

cherished In their short lives. But now it is only a memory.

To deny that each one of us. mits herself, they were, in fact, ever it has turned a corner, has knows secretly a piece of music to darupt France, giving heart marched to its tune, for Citizen which enables him to pluck stars- and courage to the oppressed de Lisle invested with plumes from the farthest sky would be

the easier that they might

and baldric the tatterdemalions to deny a truth. But those are into sweep

of

of revolt who fight blindly for scattered and private things: It

the dustbin history the pornocracy which

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-

fascinates men of letters. Mr.marching; and over the brow times.

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

Like a fire through dry grass

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

sound what had hitherto been black against the pale sky of on a windy day Rouget de uniform of revolution.

formless wonderinga in the. the evening, came the uplifted Lisk's song, once it had first Indeed, the songs that men

heads of individual men.' 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 formed down the and finally into the remotest austerity of intellectual plan- valley, and although only the corners of the world; a tonic ning; and, song has raised up 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 aristocrat.

finest all-round athlete that England ever produced. He is one of the few amateurs who havo ever played in a pro- fessional football cup final. Even so, there will be found some who disagree with his explanation..

i

derstood.

HE has moved more. men than Shakespeare

perhaps as many as the Bible. tyranny.

Men who will not die for im- has moved; and where the in- From the anacrusts which peccable statistics will fall glad fluence of Rousseau or of Vol- precedes its first bar to the last ly for an untruth if it be set to taire indirectly taught us to was IBERTY LIE

on the dying fall it is an urgent and music. march; and its feet vital song which has altered 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 Later generations were to call-tireless wings to emerge in our it "La Marseillaise.”

value freedom, he came out into the light of day and without so -much-as-a-by-your-leave-pluck.... no other song in ed greedily at the heartstrings the long story of of mankind and gave it self-

respect,

AND

Let his epitaph be not only

For the best writing about cricket is not to be discovered in technical discussions about the nicetics of play. It is found in poems and essays and stories that are drenched in the pecu- larly gentle, peaceful, gracious

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

48 оп that first the ankles of Rouget do, Lisle's The man who wrote that song "necessary 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 the green, and the chime of the prison cell for debtors; but it down 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 O'Shaughnessy: 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 together the scattered forces streets beneath. sounds that break, the stiliness

for liberty, and forged a weapon

The French Revolution rode self-conscious moments, not the

knock of sat on ball. Cricket, the world and endure for

aits measure in 1848 liberal 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" simply

Yot mon have been moved by His name was Rouget de dark past; in 1871 it was the because it is the most aesthetic. Lisio. Horigins are almost as-national-anthom of the modern tunes more vulgar even than

except for tho, quiet regular | from them that was to scour into history upon its back; to fathers from whose loins issued

One man with a dream, of

pleasure,

Shall go forth and conquer“

d crown;

"And three with a naw songs

nitasureTM

Can trample a kingdoms.

down.