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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges
Last Line: You who have fought and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War
First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges
Last Line: You who have fought and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War
UNDER the tow-path past the barges
Never an eight goes flashing by;
Never a blatant coach on the marge is
Urging his crew to do or die;
Never the critic we knew enlarges,
Fluent, on How and Why!
Once by the Iffley Road November
Welcomed the Football men aglow,
Covered with mud, as you'll remember,
Eager to vanquish Oxford's foe.
Where are the teams of last December?
Gone—where they had to go!
Where are her sons who waged at cricket
Warfare against the foeman-friend?
Far from the Parks, on a harder wicket,
Still they attack and still defend;
Playing a greater game, they'll stick it,
Fearless until the end!
Oxford's goodliest children leave her,
Hastily thrusting books aside;
Still the hurrying weeks bereave her,
Filling her heart with joy and pride;
Only the thought of you can grieve her,
You who have fought and died.
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