"Together"

Let me discuss something tangential but I will then return us to Poul Anderson's works. All my life, I have heard the Eton Boating Song but had only ever discerned the single word, "together." I hope that the song is audible here. It is mentioned, appropriately, in one of Dornford Yates' books.

What I like and approve of:

the music

togetherness

memory and nostalgia

acknowledgement of the passage of time

What I am not in tune with:

the focusing of all this on an English public school or indeed on any boarding school

Relevance to Anderson: 

continuity

conservatism

Flandry and his fiancee in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows