Sagittulae, Random Verses

by Edward Woodley Bowling

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.]