Arms and the Boy Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
College of Arms by proving descent in an unbroken male line from someone registered as so entitled or by a new grant from the King of Arms. In addition, but more rarely, arms can also be gained: by a grant from the Crown; by prescription (meaning in use since time immemorial); by succeeding to an office; or by marriage. The descent of arms follows strongly the Law of heraldic arms, which is a branch of English law, interpreted by civil lawyers in the Court of Chivalry. Sir Edward Coke in his "Commentary upon Littleton" (1628) wrote that "gentry and armes is the nature