Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/6

“

I saw the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by,
The grey spires of Oxford
Against a pearl-grey sky;
My heart was with the Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.

”

— Winifred Mary Letts, "The Spires of Oxford" (1916)

Source edit

Knowles, Elizabeth. "Winifred Mary Letts". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2009.