Come boys the world wants mending ...

Posted by Bob March 29, 2006In reply to Come boys the world wants mending ... posted by Smokey Stover on March 28, 2006

Come boys the world wants mending
let none sit down and rest
but set to work like heroes
and nobly do your best.:

Googling gets you to the Matrozenchor of Den Haag (The Hague), a chorus of apparently some renown. The quatrain seems to be a sort of motto, and is associated with the name Shakespeare in the Matrozenchor literature, but not knowing Dutch (unlike Hans van Haarst) I got no further. SS

I went there too. There's a French version of the site, and I did a rough translation from there. I still don't know what Shakespeare has to do with anything. The quote doesn't seem to show up anywhere else.