The banquet-board with choicest store:

Whereat the best skill’d war-men came,

From highlands, lowlands, vales, and plains;

And where the foremost heard his name

Proclaim’d in proud triumphant strains.

Hoist, Britons, hoist the banner high!—

Blow the blithe horn! blow merrily on;

Proclaim aloud the victory!—

Hurrah! hurrah! for Wimbledon!

[79] Return visit of the Belgian Volunteers (to England), July, 1867.