This bundle of rods may suggest one reflection,
That the arts with each other maintain a connexion.
Another good moral this bundle of switches
Points out to our notice and silently teaches;
Of peace and good fellowship these are a token,
For the twigs, well united, can scarcely be broken.
Then, if such are its virtues, we'll bow to the tree,
And the Birch, like the Muses, immortal shall be.
I copy from a MS. extract-book, and shall be glad of a reference to any place in which these lines have appeared in print.
Balliolensis.