Sir Henry Newbolt was an English poet. He is best remembered for Vitai Lampada.
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“To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That”
Henry Newbolt
“To love the game beyond the prize”
“To set the cause above renown.”
“Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.”
“Play up! play up! and play the game.”
“The work of the world must still be done, and minds are many though truth be one.”