With good hope of victory fired,
He was rowing along in his jersey and bags,
But feeling uncommonly tired!
Pull! pull! pull!
He began his full powers to exert;
Soon his boat would have been at the head of the river,
But when just at the barge—an unfortunate shiver
Made him catch a crab in the spurt!
REMEX MORIBUNDUS.
College Rhymes (T. and G. Shrimpton), Oxford, 1865.