Made splendid once with speech, or made sublime
By song,
Remembrance, though the tide of change that rolls
Wax hoary,
Gives earth and heaven, for song’s sake and the soul’s
Their glory.
A. C. Swinburne.
Three of the competition poems were printed in the Weekly Dispatch, October, 18, 1885, the first prize was awarded to the following:—
Lays dawn on us that have few charms for many,
Sometimes,