DAYS, when the ball of our vision GEORGE MEREDITH REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes WHAT? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. SAINT PAUL COME Invocation to Youth OME then, as ever, like the wind at morning! Freshness to feel the eternities around it, Rain, stars and clouds, light and the sacred dew. That strength, that radiance bring! When shall men hope for Spring? LAURENCE BINYON ΟΙ H, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in the pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couch'd in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellow'd over with gold dust divine, And the locust flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, PRAYERS And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy! ROBERT BROWNING Prayers OD who created me GOD Nimble and light of limb, In three elements free, To run, to ride, to swim: But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him : Take the thanks of a boy. Jesu, King and Lord, Whose are my foes to fight, Gird me with Thy sword, From day-dawn till night Take the strength of a man. FOUNDER'S DAY Spirit of Love and Truth, From pain, strife, wrong to be free, Take my spirit to Thee. H. C. BEECHING Founder's Day. A Secular Ode on the Ninth Jubilee of Eton College HRIST and His Mother, heavenly maid, CH Mary, in whose fair name was laid Eton's corner, bless our youth With truth, and purity, mother of truth! O ye, 'neath breezy skies of June, Or on the tabled sward all day To toil and force in game or race; |