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Rh Our voters can't forget the maxim famous Semel electum semper eligamus; They never can be worked into a ferment By visionary promise of preferment, Nor taught, by hints of 'Paradise ' beguiled, To whisper 'C for Chairman' like a child ! And thus the friends that we have tempted down Oft take the two-o'clock Express for town.
 * This is our danger: this the secret foe

That aims at Oxford such a deadly blow. What champion can we find to save the State, To crush the plot? We darkly whisper 'Wait !'