Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal.
Old Norbury starts, and, with the seventh-form boys,
In weeds of Greek the church-yard's peace annoys,
With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew,
In dismal dance about the mournful yew.
But first in notes Sicilian placed on high,
Bates sounds the soft precluding symphony;
And in sad cadence, as the bands condense,
The curfew tolls the knell of parting sense."
The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being apparently the "conqueror:"—