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Title: Sagittulae, Random Verses

Author: E. W. Bowling

Release Date: March 17, 2006 [EBook #18009]

Language: English

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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.

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 COMIN