"True-blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parents dear, nor brothers stern, need foster fond alarms. O! a tear of love maternal in Etona's eye will quiver When she sees her favourate KINGLAKE also monarch of the river. Oh! that I could honour fitly in this unassuming song That wondrous combination of steady, long, and strong. Then comes a true-blue mariner from the ever-glorious "First," In the golden arms of Glory and the lap of Victory nurst; Though blue may be his colours, there are better oarsmen few, And Oxford when it sees him will perhaps look still more blue. Then comes the son of ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling |
