"I ne'er could any lustre see," &c.
They were done by Marmaduke Lawson, of St. John's College, Cambridge, for the Pitt Scholarship in 1814, for which he was successful:
"Phyllidis effugiunt nos lumina. Dulcia sunto.
Pulcra licet, nobis haud ea pulcra micant.
Nectar erat labiis, dum spes erat ista tenendi,
Spes perit, isque simul, qui erat ante, decor.
Votis me Galatea petit. Caret arte puella,
Parque rosis tenero vernat in ore color:
Sed nihil ista juvant. Forsan tamen ista juvabunt.
Si jaceant, victâ mente, rubore genæ: