Harrowing

The Harrow school song -

Forty years on, growing older and older,
Shorter in wind, as in memory long,
Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder,
What will it help you that once you were strong?
God gives us bases to guard or beleaguer,
Games to play out, whether earnest or fun,
Fights for the fearless, and goals for the eager,
Twenty, and thirty, and forty years on!

Interesting that they don't seem to contemplate anybody lasting to their fiftieth anniversary, which in my case with my school comes this year.

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