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140 Robson and Redpath, Strahan and Paul and Bates Should store the minds of undergraduates— From Fagin's lecture-room a class should come Versed in all arts of finger and of thumb, To illustrate in practice (though by stealth) The transitory character of wealth. And thus would Oxford educate, indeed, Men far beyond a merely local need— With no career before them, I may say , Unless they're wise enough to go away, And seek, far West, or in the distant East, Another flock of pigeons to be fleeced.
 * I might go on, and trace the destiny

Of Oxford in an age which, though it be