384 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



In the lines selected from the hexameters of Henry Jerome de Sales, 

 gentleman commoner of Queen's, we have Niagara named, the St. 

 Lawrence and the Ohio. He utters a lament on the death of the King : 



Occidit heu patriae cohimen ! Te, maxime Princeps, 

 Plebs, proceresque dolent, qnin rusticus ipse per arva 

 Auspiciis secura tuis et nescia belli, 

 Sinceros fundens luctus lacrymasque, dolorem 

 Exprimit, et rapfcos Britonum deplorat honores. 

 Heu cito vanescit vitse decus ! heu cito rerum 

 Transit honos ! frustra mandata Britannica classes 

 Vidimus invictas subjectum ferre per asquor ; 

 Ingentes animos frustra miratus arenas 

 Horribiles inter Mauros, desertaque tesqna 

 Gallorum invalidas contundere viderat iras. 

 Heu frustra ssevi posita feritate tyranni 

 Extremi ad fines orientis, et arva beata 

 Auratis in quse Ganges devolvitur undis, 

 Ignotas Britonum nomen coluere per oras. 

 Consiliis frustra prudentibus usus, et alta 

 ' Omnipotentis ope, victricia fulmina late 



Sparsisti: frustra partos sine cffide triumphos 

 Yiderat horrisonis torrens Niagara fluentis, 

 Nequicquam insidias Indorura vidit inanes 

 Debellata Ohio, atque, ssterni causa doloris, 

 Subjectas tibi volvebat Laurentius undas. 



" Alas ! the country's stay hath fallen ! Thee, great Prince, com- 

 mons and nobles lament : nay, in the fields, rendered through thy 

 providence secure and undevastated by war, the very boor expresses his 

 grief by unfeigned lamentations and tears, and bemoans the snatching 

 a,way of the pride of the British people. Alas ! how swiftly vanisheth 

 life's grace ! how swiftly passeth away the glory of earthly possessions ! 

 In vain have we beheld invincible fleets bearing the behests of Britain 

 across the subject main : in vain the Moor, amazed, amidst his horrid 

 sands and desert wilds, beheld mighty spirits quelling the strong rage 

 of the Gauls. Alas ! throughout regions unexplored, to the bounds of 

 the far East and the happy fields towards which Ganges rolls, with 

 waters that bring down gold, in vain have barbarian chiefs, lading aside 

 their ferocity, reverenced the British name ! In vain, leaning on wise 

 counsels and the help of the Most High, hast thou dealt thy victorious 

 bolts far and wide ! In vain, with dread-sounding billows, did the 

 down-rushing Niagara behold bloodless victories won. To no purpose 



