London Types Bluecoat Boy

So went our boys when Edward Sixth, the King,

Chartered Christ's Hospital, and died.

And so Full fifteen generations in a string Of heirs to his bequest have had to go.

Thus Camden showed, and Barnes, and Stillingfleet,

And Richardson, that bade our Lovelace be;

Thus to his Genevieve young S.

T.

C.

With thousands else that, wandering up and down,

Quaint, privileged, liked and reputed well,

Made the great School a part of London Town Patent as Paul's and vital as Bow Bell:

The old School nearing exile, day by day,

To certain clay-lands somewhere Horsham way.