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SAGITTULAE,

RANDOM VERSES

BY

E. W. BOWLING,

RECTOR OF HOUGHTON CONQUEST, AND LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Si dulce est desipere in loco,
ignosce nostro, blande lector, ioco.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

CAMBRIDGE: W. METCALFE & SON, TRINITY STREET.

1885.

PREFACE.

A very few of the following pieces appeared in "Punch," during theConsulship of Plancus. The rest have been written by me during thepast twenty-five years, under the signature of "Arculus," for "TheEagle," the Magazine of St. John's College, Cambridge. I hope theirreappearance will be welcome to a few of my old College friends.

The general reader will probably think that some apology is due to himfrom me for publishing verses of so crude and trivial a character.

I can only say that the smallest of bows should sometimes be unstrung,and that if my little arrows are flimsy and light they will, I trust,wound no one.

E. W. BOWLING.

CONTENTS.

  THE BATTLE OF THE PONS TRIUM TROJANORUM
  JULIA
  CLIO FATIDICA
  ATHLETES AND AESTHESIS
  A VISION
  A MAY TERM MEMORY
  THE MAY TERM
  A TRAGEDY OF THE 19TH CENTURY
  "NUNC TE BACCHE CANAM"
  A ROMANCE IN REAL (ACADEMIC) LIFE
  THE SENIOR FELLOW
  A VALENTINE
  A CURATE'S COMPLAINT
  TEMPORA MUTANTUR
  SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS
  TURGIDUS ALPINUS
  THE ALPINE CLUB MAN
  THE MODERN CLIMBER
  THE CLIMBER'S DREAM
  THE BEACONSFIELD ALPHABET
  THE GLADSTONE ALPHABET
  SOLITUDE IN SEPTEMBER
  MEDITATIONS OF A CLASSICAL MAN ON A MATHEMATICAL
    PAPER DURING A LATE FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION
  THE LADY MARGARET 5TH BOAT (May, 1863)
  IN CAMUM
  FATHER CAMUS
  IN MEMORIAM G. A. P.
  GRANTA VICTRIX
  THE GREAT BOAT RACE
  LINES BY A CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT MARINER
  THE SORROWS OF FATHER CAM
  THE COMING BOAT RACE
  A BALLAD
  AN APRIL SQUALL
  BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.—I.
  BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.—II.
  BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.—III.
  BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.—IV.

[Transcriber's note: The poems "In Camus" and "Father Camus" appear tobe the same poem, the former in Latin; the latter in English. In theoriginal book, they are printed on facing pairs of pages, the left-handpage Latin, the right-hand page English. In this e-text, each poem istogether, and are in the same order as shown in the Table of Contents.]

THE BATTLE OF THE PONS TRIUM TROJANORUM:

A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis.

[NOTE.—On Thursday, February 24th, 1881, three Graces were submittedto the Senate of the University of Cambridge, confirming the Report ofThe Syndicate appointed June 3rd, 1880, to consider four memorialsrelating to the Higher Education of Women. The first two Graces werepassed by majorities of 398 and 258 against 32 and 26 respectively; thethird was unopposed. The allusions in the following lay will probablybe understood only by those who reside in Cambridge; but it may bestated that

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