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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
r gains are great, sometimes our losses. But say, to them who, in life's earnest fight For victory strive, brings any triumph quite The overflowing, unalloyed delight, The joy, as when our side spelled “phthisic” right? My sketch were faulty, with entire omission Of our great crowning glory, Exhibition. Though scarce could you expect one of my age All that was spoke in public on the stage To recollect, yet Shylock's knife, Lochiel, And Young Pretenders haunt the memory still; And one named Norval of his Grampians vaunting, And grinding organs — nor the monkey wanting. One beau worth having I remember well; Shall I confess?--the bow of William Tell. Nor is it soon forgot how once a quarter Sore trembled every mother's son and daughter. The vain, the timid, all felt perturbation Upon the morning of Examination. For there would come that day strange visitors, Part conscript fathers, part inquisitors, Not men susceptible of mirth or pity, Not friends and ministers — but the Committee.