The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook

Moralists, Metaphysicians And Mythologists: The ‘Signifiers’ of a Victorian Sub-Culture

“…And among the laconic, whimsical stanzas there was a quiet conviction of the wider role of his much-loved game in the national and imperial scheme of things: O Statesmen who devise and plot To keep the White above the Black Who tremble when your bolt is shot Lest love and loyalty grow slack, There's not a deed of craftsmanship, There's not a thing Red Tape can do, Shall knit the Hindu with the Celt As much as this the Cambridge Blue! [53] 'Pax Britannica' in Gale's optimistic opinion, was more likely to be achieved by sixes flying over the boundary than by six-inch shells flying over the natives:…”