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exemplo praecipiensque docet: Nec merces te indigna manet: juvenesque senesque Gaudebunt nomen concelebrare tuum; Condiet appositum dum fercula nostra salinum, Praebebitque suas mensa secunda nuces; Dum stantis rhedae aurigam tua pagina fallet, Contentum in sella taedia longa pati! Quid, quod et ipsa sibi devinctum Scotia nutrix Te perget gremio grata fovere senem; Officiumque pium simili pietate rependens, Saecula nulla sinet non[11] meminisse Tui. The TRANSLATION is from the pen of DEAN STANLEY:-- Hail, Twentieth Edition! From Orkney to Tweed, Let the wits of all Scotland come running to read. Not in vain hath he lived, who by innocent mirth Hath lightened the frowns and the furrows of earth: Not in vain hath he _lived_, who will never let _die_ The humours of good times for ever gone by: Not in vain hath he _lived_, who hath laboured to give In himself the best proof how by love we may _live_. Rejoice, our dear Dean, thy reward to behold In united rejoicing of young and of old; Remembered, so long as our boards shall not lack A bright grain of salt or a hard nut to crack; So long as the cabman aloft on his seat, Broods deep o'er thy page as he waits in the street! Yea, Scotland herself, with affectionate care, Shall nurse an old age so beloved and so rare; And still gratefully seek in her heart to enshrine One more _Reminiscence_, and that shall be Thine. From the DEAN of WESTMINSTER. The Deanery, Westminster, February 3, 1872. My dear elder (I cannot say eldest so long as the Dean of Winchester lives) Brother--I am very glad that you are pleased with my attempt to render into English the Bishop's beautiful Latinity.... Accept our best wishes for many happy returns of the day just past.--Yours sincerely, A.P. STANLEY. On the publication of the Twentieth Edition of the _Reminiscences_, Professor Blackie addressed to the Dean the following sonnets:-- I. Hail! wreathed in smiles, thou genial book! and hail Who wove thy web of bright and various hue, The wise old man, who gleaned the social tale And thoughtful jest and roguish whim, that grew Freely on Scotland's soil when Scotland knew To be herself, nor lusted to assume Smooth English ways--that they might live and bloom With freshness, ever old and ever new In human hearts. Thrice happy he who knows With sportive light the cloudy thoug
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