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| Winchester College War Cloister |
There is a beautiful War Cloister at Winchester College where one can sit and contemplate the two World Wars and other British campaigns. There is most moving poem inscribed there, written by a young college man who was killed in 1944.
Polliciti Meliora
As one who, gazing on a vista
Of beauty, sees the clouds close in,
And turns his back in sorrow, hearing
The thunderclouds begin
So we, whose life was all before us,
Our hearts with sunlight filled,
Left in the hills our books and flowers,
Descended, and were killed.
Write on the stone no words of sadness -
Only the gladness due,
That we, who asked the most of living,
Knew how to give it too.
Frank Thompson (Winchester Coll, 1933-1938)
This is beautiful!
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