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was SO grave and dignified that it was deemed worthy to call forth the 

 literary powers of the seniors, of professors and fellows and heads cf 

 colleges. Nevertheless, all the exercises have about them more or less 

 of the school-boy ring, and in some of them possibly may be detected 

 a tone not uninspired by a view of the substantial bounties at the dis- 

 posal of the personages addressed or referred to. 



Our first specimen will be from a copy of Ovidian hexameters and 

 pentameters, by the Vice-Chancellor himself, Dr. Joseph Brown. The 

 selection was made for the sake of the allusion to the recent conquests 

 in North America, and the rather bold assignation to our St. Lawrence 

 of the style and title of an Indus : " Each Indus," the Vice-Chancellor 

 says, " is now subject to the power of Britain." The other must be 

 the Indus proper, or else poetically the Ganges; and the allusion is to 

 the virtnal conquest of all India by the victories of Clive. Under this 

 impression the extract was made. The sense may be different, as is 

 noted below. The young King is thus apostrophised : 



Princeps Auguste ! vide qu£e pondera Famaj 



Sustineas, et qu£e poscat avitus honor. 

 Aspice quffisitos alio sub sole triumphos ; 



Accessit regnis Indus uterque tuis. 

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 Conciliare animos, populo imperitare volenti, 



Ilia sit ambitio, palma sit ilia Tibi. 

 Hsec tua bella geras, certos habitura triumphos, 



Civilis rixaj Victor et invidite. 

 Seditio procul absit, et illajtabile murmur, 



Atque omnes ajquo fcedere jungat amor : 

 Tene magis salvum populus velit, an populum Tu — 



Sola sit hajc nullo lis dirimenda die. 



" august Prince ! see what a burden of glory thou sustainest, and 

 what demands the honours gained by thy grandsire entail ! Behold 

 under another sky triumphs won ! Each Indus now is added to thy 

 realms. To conciliate hearts, to rule a willing people — let this be thy 

 ambition, this thy prize ! Victorious over civil strife and envy, let 

 such be thy wars, destined to a sure triumph. Avaunt sedition and 

 joyless complaint ! let love unite all in one just league ! Let this be 

 the sole question— never to be decided — whether thy people most wish 

 thee well, or thou thy people ! " 



In the composition of Dr. Musgrave, Provost of Oriel, who also 

 chose the elegiac couplet, we have Canada and the St. Lawrence intro- 



