Clifton Chapel And Other School Poems (SCARCE 1909 HARDBACK EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER) [INCLUDING WAR POEMS]

London: John Murray, 1909. VG/VG-. Second impression (first published in 1908) in d/w. A collection of poetry, about warfare, and centred on Clifton College, Bristol, invoking loyaly and honour to school and country. Including: 'The gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,/And the regiment blind with dust and smoke./The river of death has brimmed his banks,/ And England's far and Honour a name,/ But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:/ "Play up! play up! and play the game!" from 'Vitai Lampada'. Also, 'The School At War', 'The Volunteer', 'On Spion Kop' (to Major N H Vertue, of the Buffs, who was buried where he fell on the edge of Spion Kop), 'For A Memorial', 'The Non-Combatant', 'Commemoration', 'Epistle (To Colonel Francis Edward Younghusband)'. An example, at the turn of the twentieth century, of inspirational school/society propaganda. Inscription on front paste-down; age tanning to endpapers; age tanning to top-edge of rear cover; d/w has small edge losses and small losses to head and tail of spine and corners of the d/w; else a very good copy, in a very good minus d/w, of a SCARCE second impression. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Second Impression. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good Minus.