The Term of the Freshman.

How jollily, how joyously we live at B. N. C.[53]

Our reading is all moonshine—the wind is not more free:

The champagne is all sparkling; we quaff it day and night,

Like creatures in whose sunny throats a thirsty flame burns bright.

All Oxford knows our triumph: fast birds around us sweep;

Strange “duns” come up to look at us, their masters though so deep;

In our wake, like any serpent, doth the night policeman go,

And at the toll-bar tarrieth the proctor with his pro.