. The minstrelsy of Isis; an anthology of poems relating to Oxford and all phases of Oxford life; . INAE SEDES WHEN Pleasure rules in Learnings realmWith Heads of Houses to escort her,And youth directs an errant helm In Shorts that every year grow shorter,When Scholars have their People up (A plea that everything excuses)And quaff the gay convivial cup Where once they wooed the classic Muses. When men who used to come at nine Are indisposed (a known condition)And Brown has several aunts to dine And cannot do his composition,When Tompkins, once a studious lad, Desires most humbly to express aSi
. The minstrelsy of Isis; an anthology of poems relating to Oxford and all phases of Oxford life; . INAE SEDES WHEN Pleasure rules in Learnings realmWith Heads of Houses to escort her,And youth directs an errant helm In Shorts that every year grow shorter,When Scholars have their People up (A plea that everything excuses)And quaff the gay convivial cup Where once they wooed the classic Muses. When men who used to come at nine Are indisposed (a known condition)And Brown has several aunts to dine And cannot do his composition,When Tompkins, once a studious lad, Desires most humbly to express aSincere regret he has not had Time to complete his weekly essay. When Lecturers have lost their use, Because the youth they idly prate toHas other things whereon to muse Than mere Thucydides or Plato—(You think, perhaps, hes taking notes ? Mistaken dreams ? too well I know heIs speculating on the boats Or thinking of a rhyme to Chloe). Then seek with me some calmer scene. Where wines are hushed, where banjoes mute are ;There, careless though they burn the Dean And immolate the Senior Tutor, 350. ■Si Well muse in solitude, until June and the Long once more disbands emThen, William, pay my washing bill, And call at once my usual hansom. A. GODLEY. 351 VALDE RETRO SATHANAS ! [A meditation suggested by Mr. Carnegies decision that the presentendowed fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge are too highly paid to con-duce to study.] I T%^Y lot is low : I lecture inl\l, A simple edifice of tin :Scant is its space, its plant is small,The tin that decks its lowly wall Is not bestowedon me :To give the food which nature lacksTwo hundred pounds, less Income Tax, Compose my annual studious toils by day and night Such ample guerdons bless :They might be more—but then they might Conceivably be murmur not, nor much repine At my exiguous store ;Yet, when I cut expenses never lunch and seldom dine,—I could suppose a place was mineAmong the virtuous poor ! II Thus di
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