OXFORD REVISITED.

Last week, a prey to military duty,

I turned my lagging footsteps to the West;

I have a natural taste for scenic beauty,

And all my pent emotions may be guessed

To find myself again

At Didcot, loathliest junction of the plain.

But all things come unto the patient waiter,

"Behold!" I cried, "in yon contiguous blue

Beetle the antique spires of Alma Mater