...'The Boatman ' by Pisistratus Caxton (first Earl Lytton), published in Blackwood, December, 1863 :— the sport of man's strife Gives the zest to man's...gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize. William Watson's tribute to Matthew Arnold, ' In Laleham Churchyard ' (Spectator^ 30 Aug., 1890), has...

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...sameness of the unsocial wave, And thoa shall land me on the shore, Or in the stream I'll find my grave. For the sport of man's strife Gives the zest to man's...dies. Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, Bat the striving to win the prize." " Never the fare whom I once receive, Till the voyage be over,...

...the charm of the chase is ' enhanced a thousandfold by the difficulties which attend its pur-' suit. As the author of the "Boatman" says so beautifully: — ' " For the sport of man's strife Gives tile zest to man's life; Without it, his manhood dies ; Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the...

...'The Boatman" by Pisistratus Caxton (first Earl Lytton), published in Blackwood, Decembe:, 1863 :— the sport of man's strife Gives the zest to man's...gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize. William Watson's tribute to Matthew Arnold, ' In Laleham Churchyard ' (Spectator, 30 Aug., 1890), has...