Among them, with her startled innocent eyes).

A bevy of undergraduates at the back,

Quietly thoughtful, held their watching brief

For youth and for the future. Fame to come

Already touched the brows of a rare few

With faint leaf-shadows of her invisible wreath:

Green, the philosopher, gazing at the world

With youth’s aloofness, and that inward light

Which shines from Oxford still; not far away

The young historian of the coloured stream