At length when all had burst in flames, Jupiter cried aloud,

Phaëton who had lost his head was killed beneath a cloud.

(H. E. M. 15 8/12 IV.)

Write thirty lines of blank verse on (a), “A Spring Morning” (following “A Winter Morning Walk”), or, (b), Pegasus, or, (c), Allenby.

A SPRING MORNING.

’Tis Spring; and now the birds with merry song

Sing with full-throated voice to the blue sky

On which small clouds float, soft as a dove’s wing.

Against the blue the pale-green leaflet gleams.

The darker green of elder, further down,