Fine rivers in ocean that lost are,

And Mensium—October an instance supplies;

Ventorum, ut Libs, Notus, Auster.

Latin’s a bore, and bothers me sore,

Oh, how I wish that my lesson was o’er.

From The Comic Latin Grammar, by Paul Prendergast (Percival Leigh.) Published by David Bogue. London.

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GLEE.

This bottle’s the sun of our table,

His beams are rosy wine: