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| | FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: Vita Lampada - Sir Henry Newbolt |
 | | As a former student at Clifton College (Henry Newbolts school) this poem has special sentiment for me, for 'The Close' is where I spent the best years of my life. |
 | | While Newbolt references the far-flung colonial battlefields that would have been familiar to his late Victorian readers, he describes an attitude, or approach, toward life that is equally applicable to sport, business, or, indeed, any of the myriad competitive arenas where individuals strive for success. |
 | | The stakes may be serious (death itself), but he places value on this attitude, the "joyful mind" which equips his torch-bearers with both a greater chance of success and the type of style or dash which was viewed as the hallmark of the English gentleman of his day. |
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