"The race is run - the winner wears the laurels, But you and I not empty go away; For we have seen the least unkind of quarrels; The young men glowing in the friendly way. Let us be glad - but not because of winning, Let us go home, to family today. God make our Games a glorious beginning, And hand in hand, together guide us on our way."
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"Let Us be Glad", anthem sung at end of 1948 Olympic Games, quoted in The Austerity Olympics by Janie Hampton (2008).
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A. P. Herbert
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert (24 September 1890 β 11 November 1971) was an English humorist in many literary forms, a law-reform activist, and an independent M.P. representing Oxford University.
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