Anthem written in the summer of 1994 by Rodney Sharman in honour of Toby Jackman's 70th birthday, the text being TJ's favourite poem, written by Chidiock Tichborne, a young English Catholic who was hanged in the Tower on 20 September 1586 for having been implicated in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne. He wrote the poem on the night before he was executed.