Chariots of Fire
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:07:00
What's your friend studying, then, son?
:07:02
Barrack-room law?
:07:05
I've no idea.
:07:07
One thing's certain.
:07:09
A name like Abrahams, he won't be
in the chapel choir, now, will he?

:07:13
- Name?
- Montague.

:07:16
- What?
- Montague.

:08:05
I take the war list
:08:07
and I run down it.
:08:10
Name after name, which I cannot read
:08:13
and which we, who are older than you,
:08:16
cannot hear without emotion.
:08:20
Names which will be only names to you,
:08:23
the new college.
:08:25
But which to us summon up face after face,
:08:31
full of honesty and goodness,
:08:35
zeal and vigour
:08:37
and intellectual promise.
:08:41
The flower of a generation.
:08:43
The glory of England,
:08:45
and they died for England
:08:48
and all that England stands for.
:08:51
And now by tragic necessity,
their dreams have become yours.

:08:56
Let me exhort you. Examine yourselves.
:08:59
Let each of you discover

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