When daylight must throw a new light on his frame,

When his stomach is sick, and his liver is burning—

His eyes, shot with blood, and his brow in a flame!

William Maginn.


I saw up the steps, when the morning was shining,

The undergrads crowding so hopefully on;

I came when the sun o’er those steps was declining,

There the Senate-House was, but the students had gone.

Oh! what was the fate of the morning’s fair promise,