William Ernest Henley - Bluecoat Boy lyrics

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.