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Title: Tell England
A Study in a Generation

Author: Ernest Raymond

Release Date: February 13, 2005 [EBook #15033]

Language: English

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TELL ENGLAND

_A Study in a Generation_

By ERNEST RAYMOND

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
1922

_For all emotions that are tense and strong,
And utmost knowledge, I have lived for these--
Lived deep, and let the lesser things live long,
The everlasting hills, the lakes, the trees,
Who'd give their thousand years to sing this song
Of Life, and Man's high sensibilities,
Which I into the face of Death can sing--
O Death, then poor and disappointed thing--

Strike if thou wilt, and soon; strike breast and brow;
For I have lived: and thou canst rob me now
Only of some long life that ne'er has been.
The life that I have lived, so full, so keen,
Is mine! I hold it firm beneath thy blow
And, dying, take it with me where I go._

CONTENTS

A PROLOGUE BY PADRE MONTY

BOOK I: FIVE GAY YEARS OF SCHOOL

_Part I: Tidal Reaches_

Chapter
I RUPERT RAY BEGINS HIS STORY
II RUPERT OPENS A GREAT WAR
III AWFUL ROUT OF RAY
IV THE PREFECTS GO OVER TO THE ENEMY
V CHEATING
VI AN INTERLUDE

_Part II: Long, Long Thoughts_

VII CAUGHT ON THE BEATEN TRACK
VIII THE FREEDHAM REVELATIONS
IX WATERLOO OPENS
X WATERLOO CONTINUES: THE CHARGE AT THE END OF THE DAY
XI THE GREAT MATCH
XII CASTLES AND BRICK-DUST

BOOK II: AND THE REST--WAR

_Part I: "Rangoon" Nights_

I THE ETERNAL WATERWAY
II PADRE MONTY AND MAJOR HARDY COME ABOARD
III "C. OF E., NOW AND ALWAYS"
IV THE VIGIL
V PENANCE
VI MAJOR HARDY AND PADRE MONTY FINISH THE VOYAGE

_Part II: The White Heights_

VII MUDROS, IN THE ISLE OF LE