.388 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



Hie nova captivis fluitant insignia muris 

 America} ; validas sensit Gertnania virea, 

 Sensit et extremus septem per flumina Ganges, &c. &c, 



'' Lo ! by what exploits the glory of the Englisli race mounts high ! 

 Yonder, possessing itself of spoils and of the power of control, their 

 victorious fleet dominates the subject ocean : here, from the captured 

 fortresses of America their ensign floats, a novelty. Germany hath felt 

 their prowess : remote Ganges along its sevenfold tide hath felt it." 



Charles Agar, B.A., student of Christ Church, likewise addresses 

 the King. He introduces the St. Lawrence by name : 



Jam Britonum genus omne simul Regemque Patremque 



Te solum vocat, afliictis succurrere rebus 



Qui poteris, regnoque graves impendere curas. 



Seu spectas vestris Libyse qu4 terra subacta 



Imperils effundit opes, et Iretius eflfert 



Libertas se pulehra, jugo vinclisque soluta 



Jam primum : seu qua ssevo Germania fervet 



Milite, tot credes nondum miserata suorum, 



Irarum impatiens : seu qua Laurentius amnis 



Litora jam tandem pacatis alluit undis, 



Hajc tibi sint curse, Tuque hiec servare memento. 



" Thee solely, the whole British race salutes at once King and Father, 

 as being able to give aid to their troubled afiiiirs, and to bestow earnest 

 care on the Empire. Whether thy glance is directed to where Libya, 

 subjected to thy sway, pours forth her wealth, where fair Freedom bears 

 herself all the more joyously for now being for the first time from yoke 

 and fetter released ; or to where Germany, with her fierce soldiery, 

 rages, unable to restrain her wrath, unpitying yet the multiplied deaths 

 of her own sons ; or to where the Laurenlian stream laves its shores 

 at length at peace. Let these possessions be thy care : these possessions 

 be thou mindful to guard." 



Another member of Christ Church, Robert Bernard, a fellow-com. 

 moner, vents his patriotic enthusiasm in senarian iambics. We give 

 the sentence in which he finely personifies the St. Lawrence, as poets 

 are wont to do with noble streams. He applies to the Canadian stream 

 the title of " Father," which it is awkward to attach in English to our 

 river. We can say with propriety Father Thames, Father Rhine, 

 Father Tiber; but from the associations connected with the proper 

 name " St. Lawrence," we feel that it is impossible poetically to prefix 

 "Father" to it, when designating our river. He alludes to pageants 



