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Marlborough
and other poems



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Marlborough
and other poems

by

CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY

LATE OF MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE
SOMETIME CAPTAIN IN THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT

Third edition
with illustrations in prose


Cambridge:
at the University Press
1916

Published, January 1916
Second edition, slightly enlarged, February 1916
Reprinted, February, April, May 1916
Third edition, with illustrations in prose, October 1916

PREFACE

WHAT was said concerning the author in the preface to the first editionmay be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was at Marlborough Collegefrom September 1908 till December 1913, when he was elected to ascholarship at University College, Oxford. After leaving school he spenta little more than six months in Germany, returning home on the outbreakof war. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Seventh (Service)Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment in August 1914, Lieutenant inNovember, and Captain in the following August. His battalion was sent toFrance on 30 May. He was killed in action near Hulluch on 13 October1915. “Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long years.”

Many readers have asked for further information about the author orcontributions from his pen. I am not able to give all that is asked for;but in this edition I have done what I can to meet the wishes of mycorrespondents by appending to the poems a certain number ofillustrations in prose. With the exception of a few sentences from anearly essay, these prose passages are all taken from his letters to hisfamily and friends. They have been selected as illustrating some idea orsubject mentioned in the poems and prominent in his own mind. But therelevancy is not always very close; the moods of the moment aresometimes expressed rather than matured judgments; and it has to beremembered that what was written was not intended for other eyes thanthose of the person to whom it was addressed.

With the poems it is different; and, had he lived, he would probablyhimself have published a selection of them with such revision as hedeemed advisable. But when a suggestion about printing was made to him,soon after he had entered upon his life in the trenches of Flanders, heput the prop

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