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.

THE BATTLE OF THE PONS TRIUM TROJANORUM:

A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis.