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" Lo ! then whate'er old bards, in mystic lore, 

 Of regions blest, Hesperian coasts, have told. 

 In me shall be revealed. From shore to shore, 

 From Pole to Pole, one Empire I behold ! 

 From Albion's cliffs a mighty King shall send 

 Secure dominion : mid the brave career, 

 Howe'er to death his honour'd eld descend 

 A youthful prince shall seize his massy spear. 

 Shall rise his grandsire's conquering race to run, 

 To rule, to bless the realms the hoary "Warrior won." 



W. H. Keynell, siaholar of New College, contributed a copy of verses 

 in the style and form of " Gray's Elegy." He poetically styles Canada, 

 or New France, "Laurentia." la " royal towers/' there is probably 

 an especial allusion to Montreal and Louisbourg; also, it may be, to 

 Quebec, and to the important forts, which had been captured from the 

 French, of Beausejour, Niagara, Frontenac, Ticonderoga, Crown Point 

 and Isle Koyal. After alluding to the military intervention of Great 

 Britain on the continent of Europe, he proceeds : 



"Nor yet for you, Germania, favour'd land. 



Alone her heroes fight, her blessings fall ; 

 Another clime demands her|[fostering hand. 



Glory commands : who hears not glory's call ? 



Happy Laurentia, to thy farthest shore, 



Lavish of life, a chosen band she led ; 

 And to those royal towers her standard bore. 



Whence fell Oppression, Gallic tyrant, fled." 



In Wright's Caricature History of the Georges, a portion of a sati- 

 rical picture, of the year 1754, is given, in which the British lion is 

 represented as plucting feathers from the tail of a Gallic cock ; the 

 feathers under the lion's paw being severally inscribed with the names 

 of the French forts in North America, " Beau S^jour," " Fort St, 

 John," " Crown Point," " Ohio," " Quebec," &e. 



S. Bradbury, commoner of Wadham, adopted, in his exercise, the 

 ordinary English epic measure. He expressly employs the epithet 

 '' Canadian." All the successes of the British arms during the late 

 reign are attributed to the King himself. Thus he speaks : 



" Witness, thou sun, whose vivid beams are shed 

 On every clime, how wide his conquests spread, 

 Or on the Atlantic, or Pacific main. 

 Or Libya, or the bleak Canadian plain." 



