Onward and Upward


This unauthorised version was written in 1930 and published in the Dolphin above the initials E.W.J. Can anyone identify the author?.

ONWARD and UPWARD

 
When schooldays are dry, with their tests and exams
And we're waiting for twenty to one,
May we ever absorb as our master expounds
The wonderful work by him done;
And though buns and mik are all we can buy,
Indigestion we somehow avoid,
While in school we all try, with might and with main,
To imitate gay Harold Lloyd.

Our rules! Our rules! Write Rule Three twenty times!
Raise your voices boys hearty and clear,
Let us try still to break them whenever we can,
For schoolmasters never we'll fear!

May masters and boys in one purpose be bound -
The desire for more frequent long rests -
Working "Toute la journee" as tea-parties draw nigh,
Is worse than Reviews and french Tests.
But 'tis only by working at School and at home,
That the tea-parties we can avoid:
If buns and hot milk were supplied with the work,
Tea-parties would be more enjoyed!

We know what Room 46 has in store,
But no matter whate'er it may be
We'll file "Onward and Upward" to Room Forty-six,
Ever striving from "cribs" to be free.
And if e'er a companion, by Latin o'ercome,
Should falter when working it through,
May Mr E.P. be ever at hand,
Always ready to help him construe.

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