And _odd Fish Bill_,{43} at sight of gold,

Will steer clear of the bump,"{44} sir.
A list of _worthies_, learn'd and great

In every art and science,
That noble youths should emulate,

To set laws at defiance:
The church, the senate, and the bar,

By these in ethics grounded,
Must prove a meteoric star,

Of brilliancy compounded.
Ye lights of Eton, rising suns,

Of all that's great and godly;
The nation's hope, and dread of _duns_,

Let all your acts be _motley_.
Learn arts like these, ye oppidan,

If you'd astonish greatly
The senate, or the great divan,

With classics pure, and stately.
Give Greek and Latin to the wind,

Bid pedagogues defiance:
These are the rules to grace the mind

With the true gems of science.

42 Tom New, a great cricketer.

43 Bill Fish, a waterman who attends the youngest boys in
their excursions.

44 The BUMP, to run against each other in the race.

~76~~

APOLLO'S VISIT TO ETON.

~76~~ This whimsical production appeared originally in 1819, in an
Eton miscellany entitled the College Magazine; the poetry of which was
afterwards selected, and only fifty copies struck off: these have been
carefully suppressed, principally we believe on account of this article,
as it contains nothing that we conceive can be deemed offensive, and
has allusions to almost all the distinguished scholars of that period,
besides including the principal contributors to the Etonian, a recent
popular work: we have with some difficulty filled up the blanks with
real names; and, at the suggestion of several old Etonians, incorporated
it with the present work, as a fair criterion of the promising character
of the school at this particular period.

The practice of thus distinguishing the rising talents of Eton is
somewhat ancient. We have before us a copy of verses dated 1620, in
which Waller, the poet, and other celebrated characters of his time, are
particularised. At a still more recent period, during the mastership
of the celebrated Doctor Barnard, the present earl of Carlisle, whose
classical taste is universally admitted, distinguished himself not less
than his compeers, by some very elegant lines: those on the late Right
Hon. C. J. Fox we are induced to