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Title: Sagittulae, Random Verses
Author: E. W. Bowling
Release Date: March 17, 2006 [EBook #18009]
Language: English
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SAGITTULAE, RANDOM VERSES ***
Produced by Al Haines
SAGITTULAE,
RANDOM VERSES
BY
E. W. BOWLING,
RECTOR OF HOUGHTON CONQUEST, AND
LATE
FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
Si dulce est desipere in loco,
ignosce nostro, blande lector, ioco.
LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
CAMBRIDGE: W. METCALFE & SON, TRINITY STREET.
1885.
PREFACE.
A very few of the following pieces appeared in "Punch," during the
Consulship of Plancus. The rest have been written by me during the
past twenty-five years, under the signature of "Arculus," for "The
Eagle," the Magazine of St. John's College, Cambridge. I hope their
reappearance will be welcome to a few of my old College friends.
The general reader will probably think that some apology is due to him
from me for publishing verses of so crude and trivial a character.
I can only say that the smallest of bows should sometimes be unstrung,
and that if my little arrows are flimsy and light they will, I trust, wound
no one.
E. W. BOWLING.
CONTENTS.
THE BATTLE OF THE PONS TRIUM TROJANORUM
JULIA

CLIO FATIDICA
ATHLETES AND AESTHESIS
A
VISION
A MAY TERM MEMORY
THE MAY TERM
A
TRAGEDY OF THE 19TH CENTURY
"NUNC TE BACCHE
CANAM"
A ROMANCE IN REAL (ACADEMIC) LIFE
THE
SENIOR FELLOW
A VALENTINE
A CURATE'S
COMPLAINT
TEMPORA MUTANTUR
SIMPLEX
MUNDITIIS
TURGIDUS ALPINUS
THE ALPINE CLUB
MAN
THE MODERN CLIMBER
THE CLIMBER'S DREAM

THE BEACONSFIELD ALPHABET
THE GLADSTONE

ALPHABET
SOLITUDE IN SEPTEMBER
MEDITATIONS
OF A CLASSICAL MAN ON A MATHEMATICAL
PAPER
DURING A LATE FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION
THE LADY
MARGARET 5TH BOAT (May, 1863)
IN CAMUM
FATHER
CAMUS
IN MEMORIAM G. A. P.
GRANTA VICTRIX
THE
GREAT BOAT RACE
LINES BY A CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT
MARINER
THE SORROWS OF FATHER CAM
THE
COMING BOAT RACE
A BALLAD
AN APRIL SQUALL

BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.--I.
BEDFORDSHIRE
BALLAD.--II.
BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.--III.

BEDFORDSHIRE BALLAD.--IV.
[Transcriber's note: The poems "In Camus" and "Father Camus" appear
to be the same poem, the former in Latin; the latter in English. In the
original book, they are printed on facing pairs of pages, the left-hand
page Latin, the right-hand page English. In this e-text, each poem is
together, and are in the same order as shown in the Table of Contents.]
THE BATTLE OF THE PONS TRIUM TROJANORUM:
A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis.
[NOTE.--On Thursday, February 24th, 1881, three Graces were
submitted to the Senate of the University of Cambridge, confirming the
Report of The Syndicate appointed June 3rd, 1880, to consider four
memorials relating to the Higher Education of Women. The first two
Graces were passed by majorities of 398 and 258 against 32 and 26
respectively; the third was unopposed. The allusions in the following
lay will probably be understood only by those who reside in Cambridge;
but it may be stated that Professor Kennedy, Professor Fawcett, and Sir
C. Dilke gave their votes and influence in favour of The Graces, while
Dr. Guillemard, Mr. Wace, Mr. Potts, Professor Lumby, Dr. Perowne,
Mr. Horne and Mr. Hamblin Smith voted against The Graces.]
I

Aemilia Girtonensis,
By the Nine Muses swore
That the great
house of Girton
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Muses Nine
she swore it,
And named a voting day,
And bade her learned ladies
write,
And summon to the impending fight
Their masters grave and
gay.
II.
East and West and South and North
The learned ladies wrote,
And
town and gown and country
Have read the martial note.
Shame on
the Cambridge Senator
Who dares to lag behind,
When light-blue
ladies call him
To join the march of mind.
III.
But by the yellow Camus
Was tumult and affright:
Straightway to
Pater Varius
The Trojans take their flight--
'O Varius, Father Varius,

'To whom the Trojans pray,
'The ladies are upon us!
'We look to
thee this day!'
IV.
There be thirty chosen Fellows,
The wisest of the land,
Who hard
by Pater Varius
To bar all progress stand:
Evening and morn the
Thirty
On the Three Graces sit,
Traced from the left by fingers deft

In the great Press of Pitt.
V.
And with one voice the Thirty
Have uttered their decree--
'Go forth,
go forth, great Varius,
'Oppose the Graces Three!
'The enemy
already
'Are quartered in the town,
'And if they once the Tripos
gain,
'What hope to save the gown?'
VI.

'To Hiz, [1] the town of Offa,
'Their classes first they led,
'Then
onward to Girtonia
'And Nunamantium sped:
'And now a mighty
army
'Of young and beardless girls
'Beneath our very citadel
'A
banner proud unfurls.'
VII.
Then out spake Father Varius,
No craven heart was his:
'To
Pollmen and to Wranglers
'Death comes but once, I wis.
'And how
can man live better,
'Or die with more renown,
'Than fighting
against Progress
'For