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Virtus Catonis floret, Apollinem
Adepta testem.Te quoque gentium

Præda superbarum nitentem

Musa pio decorabit hymno,

Potens eburna pectine lividas

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Antiqua Libertas per orbem

Intrepido rediviva vultu

Refulsit, et Pax, et veteri Fides
Ornata cultu. Sed pedibus Nefas
Fugit cruentatis, Furorque,
Et posito gravis Ira telo.

Ducente turmas te, viguit decus
Et fama nostri militis; et diu
Invicta conspexit Britannum

Arma, cadens oriensque, Phoebus.

a Non te minaci terruit impetu
Plusquam paterna sævitia ferox
Prædator, Eois superbus

Agminibus, Syriaque pube.

Quid profuerunt carmina! Quid preces

a Tippoo Sultan, the son of Hyder Ali, and noted, even more

than his father, for his bitter hatred to the English.

b The amulet which Tippoo always wore on his left arm.

C

Emptæ Prophetarum! Abstulit, abstulit
Fronti triumphalem coronam, et

Mors vacuas penetravit ædes.

Quin Anglicorum murmura cornuum
Hispana tellus audiit; et, sono
Gaudens repentino juventus

Fulminea rapit arma dextra,

Desueta bello; nam patrios diu
Fines secunda militia tumens,
Et rura, natalesque campos,
Et segetes violarat hostis

Impune victor-Non aliter tamen
Te fugit ægro mollis anhelitu,
Quam cerva Gætulum leonem,

Aut aquilam fugiunt columbæ.

Ergo indecorum discutiens jugum
Vindex salutem restituit manus,
Et dona libertatis almæ,

Et veterem, sine labe, vitam.

Pacata tutus rura perambulat

Cum prole dulci, et conjuge rusticus :

c He sent offerings to the Brahmin priests, and requested their

prayers.

Florent oliveta: Ceresque

Dat gravidas opulenta messes.

Suaque fusus sub platano senex
Fallit morantem carmine Vesperum;
Nec prælia, immitesve Gallos,

Aut subitam metuit sagittam.

Audin'! minaces increpuit tubas
Bellona: lætus deserit Ismarum

Gradivus intonsum, vibratque
Sanguineam galeatus hastam.

Sævum remugit buccina. Dat cita
Morti virum vir. Sed potius lepus
Mollis reluctantem draconem

Aut pavidus superabit agnus

Quam Gallus atrox non timidos mori
Vincet Britannos. Contudit agmina
Ferrata, tendentemque regem

Per domitas dare jura terras

Inominata clade Diespiter

Rejecit-Illum, trans vitreum mare,

Parvo reclinatum sepulcro

d Funereis tegit umbra ramis

4 The weeping willows that overshadow the tomb of Napoleon.

Flores reducit Ver: sequitur rubens

Estas benigna fundit opes manu

:

Autumnus: accedente Bruma,

ilva gemit, lacerasque frondes

Deponit-Eheu! sic pereunt, rosæ
Marcentis instar, cuncta.-Jacent, jacent
Regesque, sublimisque regum
Aula, pari revoluta casu―

Sed sola, fato cedere nescia,

Virtus sepulcrum temnit, et impios
Enses, vetustatisque damna, et
Purpurea petit astra penna ;-

Sed te, et tuorum participes viros
Fortes honorum Calliope mori

Vetabit, o præclare nostræ

Gentis honos:-tibi serta lauro

Phoebea nectet Pieridum chorus,
Qui semper udum Castaliæ nemus,
Sacrosque Parnassi recessus,

Et gelidam tenet Hippocrenen.

A. LLOYD,

E COLL. WADH.

Et spes, et ratio studiorum in Cæsare tantum.
Juvenal vii. 1.

SAY, whom of Britain's gifted sons, renowned
For loftiest genius, or for worth revered,
By valour's ever-blooming chaplets crowned,
Or by their patriot deeds and toils endeared,-
Say, whom o'er Learning's ancient honoured seat,
Shall Oxford hail exalted to preside;

With conscious pride and firm affection greet

The Champion of her rights, her Guardian and her Guide?

Has she not those who felt her fostering hand

To wear her titles and uphold her name ?
Yes they are hers-the firm and generous band,
Dear to their grateful country and to Fame,
And worthiest all of honour's brightest meed;
Yet proud in honour's rank to yield to One,
Whom, reared afar from Isis' peaceful shade,
Still Oxford fondly loved, and owned her genuine Son.

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