Or prizemen in the May.
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(In revenge for this slight the Undergraduates introduce gunpowder below the room in which the Dons hold their banquet; at a given signal, one Tomkins applies a match, and the whole party is blown up.)
A hand they found of Tomkins,
Some sixteen miles away,
And in its cold clenched fingers
A box—“Bryant and May”;
And to this hour his praises
Are oft rehearsed in song,
As one who perished at his post,