17. And, though some trifling share of praise, To cheer my last declining days, To me were doubly dear; Whilst blessing your beloved name, GRANTA, A MEDLEY. Αργυρέαις λογχαισι μαχε και παντα Κρατήσαις. I. OH! Could LE SAGE'S demon's gift Be realized at my desire, This night my trembling form he'd lift, To place it on St. Mary's spire. 2. Then would, unroof'd, old Granta's halls Pedantic inmates full display; * The Diable Boiteux of LE SAGE, where Asmodeus, the Demon, places Don Cleofas on an elevated situation, and unroofs the houses for his inspection. Fellows who dream on lawn, or stalls, The price of venal votes to pay. 3. Then would I view each rival wight, Who canvass there with all their might, 4. Lo! candidates and voters lie, All lull'd in sleep, a goodly number! A race renown'd for piety, Whose conscience won't disturb their slumber. 5. Lord H―, indeed, may not demur, Fellows are sage, reflecting men! They know preferment can occur 6. They know the Chancellor has got And, therefore, smiles on his proposal. 7. Now, from the soporific scene I'll turn mine eye, as night grows later, To view, unheeded and unseen, The studious sons of Alma Mater. 8. There, in apartments small and damp, Sits poring by the midnight lamp, Goes late to bed, yet early rises. 9. He, surely, well deserves to gain them, 10. Who sacrifices hours of rest, To scan, precisely, metres Attic; Or agitates his anxious breast In solving problems mathematic; II. Who reads false quantities in Sele,* In barbarous Latin † doom'd to wrangle; 12. Renouncing every pleasing page The square of the hypothenuse. § 13. Still, harmless are these occupations, Which bring together the imprudent. * Sele's publication on Greek metres displays considerable talent and ingenuity, but, as might be expected in so difficult a work, is not remarkable for accuracy. The Latin of the schools is of the CANINE SPECIES, and not very intelligible. The discovery of Pythagoras, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right angled triangle. 14. Whose daring revels shock the sight, 15. Not so the methodistic crew, In humble attitude they sue, Forgetting, that their pride of spirit, 17. 'Tis morn,-from these I turn my sight: * On a Saint day, the students wear surplices in chapel. |