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: