378 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



dueed. These names occur in an address to the shade of the deceased 

 King, George the Second, thus : 



Te penes arbitrinm pelagi ; Tibi, sospite clas&e, 



ISTeptunus gemini contulit orbis opes. 

 Te CanaclEe tremuere lacus, Laurentius ipse. 



Auspice Te, placidas volvit amicus aquas ; 

 Quique tenent Nigrim Mauri, quique ultima Gangis 



Littora flava, tuo coUa dedere jugo. 



" With thee was the control of the sea : on thee, thy fleet kept safe, 

 Neptune conferred the wealth of two hemispheres. Before thee the 

 lakes of Canada trembled : under thy auspices the St. Lawrence itself, 

 now a friendly stream, rolled down its waves appeased. The swart 

 Moors, as well those who possess the Niger, as those who possess the 

 scorched shores of the far Ganges, yielded their necks to thy yokc.'^ 



The allusion to "Niger" is to the capture, a year or two previously, 

 of the forts St. Louis and Goree, on or near the river Senegal. 



The Rector of Exeter College, Dr. F. Webber, contributed some 

 Alcaic stanzas. There is in the extract here given no reference to local 

 names on this side the ocean. But we have in it a clever working out 

 of the setting-and-rising-sun metaphor. He speaks of the recent royal 

 death, and the recent royal accession, in these terms : 



Inter triumphos Georgius occidit ! 

 Nee clarior sol oceano subit, 



Cum flammeo splendore prsbet 

 Indicium reditus sereni. 

 At, uno adempto Lumine patriae, 

 En sui'git alter Georgius, altera 

 Lux ! et sui Regis renidet 

 Auspiciis recreata Tellus. 



" Amidst his triumphs fell our George ! And never more brilliantly 

 set sun in ocean, when with fiery glow it gives promise of fair return. 

 But lo ! no sooner is one luminary of the father-land taken away, than 

 another springs up — another George : and reanimated by the omen of 

 its King, the land regains its smile." 



The Alcaic stanza was also selected by Dr. Randolph, President of 

 Corpus, for his exercise. He celebrates the conquest of Canada, and 

 names the St. Lawrence. He addresses himself thus to the young 

 King : He shows himself a careful student of Horace and a master of 

 Latin. 



