JUVENILE VERSES. 579 



Come in thy might and shake the deep profound, 

 Let the Academy with shouts resound, 

 While radiant glory all thy head adorns, 

 And slippers on thy feet protect thy corns ; 



may I live so long on earth below, 



That I may learn the things that thou dost know ! 

 Then will I praise thee in heroic verse 

 So good that Linus' will be counted worse ; 

 The Thracian Orpheus never will compare 

 With me, nor Dods that got the prize last year. 

 But stay, stay upon this earth a while, 

 Even now thou seest the world's approving smile, 

 And when thou goest to taste celestial joys, 

 Let thy great nephew 1 teach the mourning boys, 

 Then mounting to the skies upon the wind, 

 Lead captive ignorance in chains behind. 



TORTO VOLITANS SUB VERBERE TURBO 



QUEM PUERI MAGNO IN GYRO VACUA ATRIA CIRCUM 



INTENTI LUDO EXERCENT. 



Virgil, dZn. vii. 378. 



Nov. 1844. 



OF pearies 2 and their origin I sing : 

 How at the first great Jove the lord of air 

 Impelled the planets round the central sun 

 Each circling within each, until at last 

 The winged Mercury moves in molten fire. 

 And which of you, ye heavenly deities, 

 That hear the endless music of the spheres, 

 Hast given to man the secret of the Top ? 

 Say, was it thou, Fun, that dost prefer, 

 Before all temples, liberty and play ? 

 Yes, yes, 'twas only thou, thou from the first 

 Wast present when the Eoman children came 

 To the smooth pavement, where with heavy lash 

 They chased the wooden plaything without end. 



1 Mr. Theodore Williams, English Master in the Academy 



2 See p. 51. 



