An institution once to fame well-known,
A Queen was present at its humble birth!
Success unrivalled marked it for its own.
Large was its mission, and its work sincere,
The Volunteers its meets did well attend;
They give its mem’ry (all they have)—a tear,
And pray for (that which “George” was not) a friend.
No further need the merits to disclose
Of that Common, so long by marksmen trod,
Those marksmen now in trembling hope repose