Ꭼ Ꭱ Ꭱ Ꭺ Ꭲ Ꭺ .

Title-page of Tennyson's Poem, read Morrisian for Norrisian
Page 5 of Goodchild's Latin Prose.
Line 1. omit verum

2. for destinaturæ read destinatur ?
13. for ausus read ausurus

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POLYCRATES AND THE RING.

“Le génie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience.”

Bufon.

In Samos' isle, long ages past away,

Polycrates the tyrant ruled the land;
Thousands he held beneath his sovereign sway,
Wielding the sceptre in a monarch's hand.

None dared to disobey his royal word;
Revolt was crushed by the down-cleaving sword.

With boundless riches was his palace decked;

Their choicest gifts the gods had scattered there
In sweet and rich profusion; nought he recked
Of aught that gods or foeman's might could dare.

Richer than richest, strongest ’mid the strong,
He ruled with justice and repressed the wrong.

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Now so it chanced upon a May morning,

Th’accustomed crowd throng'd through the palace gate,
To make a due obeisance to their king,
And pay just rev'rence to his royal state;

Pacing full slowly through the vaulted halls,
Past marble arch, past statued pedestals;