THE Sixth Edition of the Upper School Song Book appeared in 1892, and contained 116 songsof those, 24, which had fallen out of use, have been omitted in the present volume, and 25 new songs have been inserted.

DECEMBER 1901.

F. B. M.

SONGS.

THE ADMIRAL'S BROOM.

Music by Frederick Bevan.

F. E. Weatherley.

Van Tromp was an Admiral brave and bold,
The Dutchman's pride was he;

And he cried, "I'll reign on the rolling main,
As I do on the Zuyder Zee."
And as he paced his quarter-deck,
And looked o'er the misty tide,
He saw old England like a speck
And he shook his fist and cried:

"I've a broom at the mast," said he,

For a broom is the sign for me;
That the world may know wherever I go,
I sweep the mighty sea."

Now Blake was an Admiral true as gold,
And he walked by the English sea;

And when he was told of that Dutchman bold
A merry laugh laughed he.

And he cried,

"

Ho! ho! and away we'll go,
Come aboard, merry men, with me;

And we'll drive this Dutchman down below,
To the bottom of his Zuyder Zee.

His broom may be trim and gay
But we'll haul it down to-day,

When he says he'll sweep the mighty deep,
'Tis a game that two can play."

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