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Page 21
Oh! could LE SAGE's[8] demon's gift,
Be realized at my desire,
This night my trembling form he'd lift,
And place it on St. Mary's spire.
2.
Then would unroof'd old Granta's Halls
Pedantic inmates full display,
_Fellows_ who dream on _lawn_, or _stalls_,
The price of hireling votes to pay.
3.
Then would I view each rival Wight,
PETTY and PALMERSTON survey,
Who canvass now with all their might,
Against the next elective day.
4.
One on his power and place depends,
The other on the Lord knows what,
Each to some eloquence pretends,
But neither will convince by _that_.
5.
The first indeed may not demur,
Fellows are sage reflecting men,
And know preferment can occur,
But very seldom, _now_ and _then_.
6.
They know the Chancellor has got,
Some pretty livings in disposal,
Each hopes that _one_ may be his _lot_,
And therefore smiles at his proposal.
7.
Now from corruption's shameless scene,
I'll turn mine eye, as night grows later,
And view unheeded, and unseen,
The studious sons of Alma Mater.
8.
There in apartments small and damp,
The candidate for college prizes,
Sits poring by the midnight lamp,
Goes late to bed and early rises.
9.
He surely well deserves to gain them,
And all the honours of His college,
Who striving hardly to obtain them,
Thus seeks unprofitable knowledge.
10.
Who sacrifices hours of rest,
To scan precisely metres attic,
And agitates his anxious breast,
In solving problems mathematic.
11.
Who reads false quantities in Sele,[9]
Or puzzles o'er the deep triangle,
And robs himself of many a meal,
In _barbarous latin_[10] doom'd to wrangle.
12.
Renouncing every pleasing page,
From authors of historic use,
Preferring to the lettered sage,
The square of the hypothenuse.[11]
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