Sagittulae, Random Verses

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

 * 1) The Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum
 * 2) Julia
 * 3) Clio Fatidica
 * 4) Athetes and Aesthesis
 * 5) A Vision
 * 6) A May Term Memory
 * 7) The May Term
 * 8) A Tragedy of the 19th Century
 * 9) "Nunc Te Bacche Canam"
 * 10) A Romance in Real (Academic) Life
 * 11) The Senior Fellow
 * 12) A Valentine
 * 13) A Curate's complaint
 * 14) Tempora Mutantur
 * 15) Simplex Munditiis
 * 16) Turgidus Alpinus
 * 17) The Alpine Club Man
 * 18) The Modern Climber
 * 19) The Climber's Dream
 * 20) The Beaconsfield Alphabet
 * 21) The Gladstone Alphabet
 * 22) Solitude in September
 * 23) Meditations of a Classical Man on a mathematical paper during a late fellowship examination
 * 24) The Lady Margaret 5th Boat (May, 1863)
 * 25) In Camum
 * 26) Father Camus
 * 27) In memoriam G. A. P.
 * 28) Granta Victrix
 * 29) The Great Boat Race
 * 30) Lines by a Cambridge Ancient Mariner
 * 31) The sorrows of Father Cam
 * 32) The coming boat race
 * 33) A Ballad
 * 34) An April Squall
 * 35) Bedfordshire Ballad I
 * 36) Bedfordshire Ballad II
 * 37) Bedfordshire Ballad III
 * 38) 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.]