Two lines from a poem, To the Rev. F. D. Maurice, head the list:—
“You’ll have no scandal while you dine,
But honest talk and wholesome wine.”
To the toast of “The Queen” are four lines, as follow:—
“Her Court was pure; her life serene;
God gave her peace; her land reposed;
A thousand claims to reverence closed
In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen.”
Five lines from The Battle of Brunanburgh are given to the toast of “Our Brave Defenders”:—
“Theirs was a greatness
Got from their grandsires—
Theirs that so often in
Strife with their enemies,
Struck for their hoards and their hearths and their homes.”
Two quotations appear under the toast of “Success to the Hull Literary Club”:—
“We rub each other’s angles down.”—In Memoriam.
“Work in noble brotherhood.”—Exhibition Ode.
With the toast of “Literature and the Arts” is the line:—
“Let knowledge grow from more to more.”