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High in the midst surrounded by his peers	A
MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears	A
Placed on his chair of state he seems a god	B
While Sophs and Freshmen tremble at his nod	B
As all around sit wrapt in speechless gloom	C
His voice in thunder shakes the sounding dome	D
Denouncing dire reproach to luckless fools	E
Unskill'd to plod in mathematic rules	E
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Happy the youth in Euclid's axiorn tried	F
Though littie versed in any art beside	F
Who scarcely skill'd an English line tc pen	G
Scans Attic metres with a critic's ken	G
What though he knows not how his fathers bled	H
When civil discord piled the fields with dead	H
When Edward bade his conquering bands advance	I
Or Henry trampled on the crest of France	I
Though marvelling at the name of Magna Charta	H
Yet well he recollects the laws of Sparta	H
Can tell what edicts sage Lycurgus made	H
While Blackstone's on the shelf neglected laid	H
Of Grecian dramas vaunts the deathless fame	J
Of Avon's bard remembering scarce the name	J
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Such is the youth whose scientific pate	H
Class honours medals fellowships await	H
Or even perhaps the declamation prize	K
If to such glorious height he lifts his eyes	K
But lo no common orator can hope	L
The envied silver cup within his scope	L
Not that our heads much eloquence require	M
Th' ATHENIAN'S glowing style or Tully's fire	M
A manner clear or warm is useless since	N
We do not try by speaking to convince	N
Be other orators of pleasing proud	H
We speak to please ourselves not move the crowd	H
Our gravity prefers the muttering tone	O
A proper mixture of the squeak and groan	O
No borrow'd grace of action must he seen	P
The slightest motion would displease the Dean	P
Whilst everv staring graduate would prate	H
Against what he could never imitate	H
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The man who hopes t' obtain the promised cup	Q
Must in one posture stand and ne'er look up	Q
Nor stop but rattle over every word	H
No matter what so it can not be heard	H
Thus let him hurry on nor think to rest	H
Who speaks the fastest's sure to speak the best	H
Who utters most within the shortest space	R
May safely hope to win the wordy race	R
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The sons of science these who thus repaid	H
Linger in ease in Granta's sluggish shade	H
Where on Cam's sedgy banks supine they lie	S
Unknown unhonour'd live unwept for die	S
Dull as the pictures which adorn their halls	T
They think all learning fix'd within their walls	T
In manners rude in foolish forms precise	U
All modern arts affecting to despise	K
Yet prizing Bentley's Brunck's or Porson's note	H
More than the verse on which the critic wrote	H
Vain as their honours heavy as their ale	V
Sad as their wit and tedious as their tale	V
To friendship dead though not untaught to feel	W
When Self and Church demand a bigot zeal	W
With eager haste they court the lord of power	M
Whether 'tis Pitt or Petty rules the hour	M
To him with suppliant smiles they bend the head	H
While distant mitres to their eyes are spread	H
But should a storm o'erwhelm him with disgrace	R
They'd fly to seek the next who fill'd his place	R
Such are the men who learning's treasures guard	H
Such is their practice such is their reward	H
This much at least we may presume to say	X
The premium can't exceed the price they pay	X

George Gordon Byron

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