Excelsior!
The Tonbridgian, September, 1874.
The Excelsior Climbing Boy.
(Poëma partìm Canino-Latinum, post
Longum— seu potiùs, meritò dicatur,—
Excelsiorem Socium).
Some few, whose days are closing fast,
Remember, in their time long past,
How youth, in toil of little price,
Might yet have borne, for their device,
Excelsior!