3S0 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



At sseva instantem non arma avertere cladem, 

 Won rupes poterant, cum in prselia duceret ultor 

 WoLFius accensas raetuendo Marte catervas ! 

 Ergo expugnatas arces, eversaque casti'a, 

 ISTequicquam moeres, fractis ingloria telis. 

 Ergo iterum vastata diu tua rura, Colone, 

 Pace colas, nee te cultro jam terreat Indus 

 Crudelis, Gallusque Indo crudelior hostes. 

 Felix rura colas : lisec Georgius otia fecit, 



" Betold, Gaul ! to what end thy plots and base wiles and nefarious 

 blood-thirstiness have come, in the lands of the West. Refusing to 

 endure a divided rule, thou didst aim, by military power, to subdue all 

 things, and to lord it throughout the earth alone ! But ruthless arma- 

 ments availed not, nor rocky fastnesses, to avert from thee quick destruc- 

 tion, when Wolfe, the avenger, brought into the field his cohorts, fired 

 by dread-inspiring Mars. Here is the reason why thou, shorn of glory, 

 thy weapons shattered, bewailest in vaia stormed citadels, demolished 

 fortresses ! Here is the reason why thou, colonist, now again tillest 

 in peace thy fields devastated so long : and neither the inhuman Indian 

 affrighteth thee with his knife, nor thy Grallic foe, than Indian more 

 inhuman. All blest, till thou thy fields. For thee, this repose a George 

 hath secured." 



The production of John Smith Bugden, gentleman commoner of 

 Trinity (" Coll. SS. Trin. Sup. Ord. Com."), is likewise in heroic metre. 

 He moulds into shapely classic forms the names of Acadia, Louisbourg, 

 Quebec, Ontario and the Mississippi. He represents the French King, 

 Louis XV, on hearing of the decease of George II, as bidding his 

 nobles not to imagine that that event would unfavorably affect the 

 fortunes of England. The reference to our own Lake Ontario is espe- 

 cially interesting. He thus speaks to them : 



Suetas torpere in prcslia vires 



Creditis Angligenum, minuive ingentia ccepta ? 

 En superest sceptri, superest virtu tis avitse, 

 Georgius, auspiciis seqne felicibus, hseres. 

 Ille animis veteres odiisque sequacibus iras 

 Implebit, belloque secundo quicquid agendum 

 Restiterit, paribus cumulabit protinua armis. 

 y oedera nunc violasse pudet, nunc poenitet ultro 

 Acadise fines tetigisse, incertaque rura ! 

 Occiduo tulerit quantos ex axe, videtis, 

 Longffivi dudum Regis fortuna, triumphos. 



