Our studies, as our sports before, were one.
Together we explored the stoic page
Of the Ligurian, stern though bearless sage!
Or traced the Aquinian through the Latine road,
And trembled at the lashes he bestowed.
Together, too, when Greece unlocked her stores,
We roved in thought o’er Troy’s devoted shores,
Or followed, while he sought his native soil,
‘That old man eloquent’ from toil to toil;
Lingering, with good Alcinous o’er the tale,