Explore "The Blue-Coat Boys" by Felix Leigh on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
If you should pass through Newgate Street,
Bareheaded boys with coats of blue, / Among the crowd you're sure to meet -- / And all with yellow stockings too.
Their coats are long as well as blue, / And when at football they do play, / They find them rather heavy too, / So tuck them up out of the way.
In Christchurch passage will be found / The entrance to the School; and though / It looks so quiet, all around / We hear the crowd go to and fro.
Above the doorway there you see / The Boy King's statue:Would you know / Who founded this great school? 'Twas he, / More than three hundred years ago.