Calendar: 1866-1867 Page 507

THE SCHOOL 509 III -translate into Satin ftejrametersS Not long had observed when from afar heard sudden symphony of war The neighing coursers and the soldiers' cry And sounding trumps that seemed to tear the sky saw soon after this behind the grove From whence the ladies did in order move Come issuing forth in arms warrior train That like deluge poured upon the plain On barbed steeds they rode in proud array Wide as the college of the bees in May When swarming o'er the dusky fields they fly New to the flowers and intercept the sky So fierce they drove their coursers were so fleet That the turf trembled underneath their feet IV -CvanSlate into &tetk $ro£e As to our future conduct am indeed of opinion that if we shall turn ourselves to indolence and the pleasure of base men who think labour most wretched thing but living without labour pleasure say that we shall soon become little valuable to ourselves and shall soon be deprived of all good things For to have been brave men this is not enough towards continuing to be brave unless one is careful of this throughout to the end but even as other arts by being neglected become worthless and bodies themselves in good condition when one gives them up to indolence again become bad so also prudence and temperance and courage when one has relinquished the practice of them from that time degenerate into vice It becomes us then not to be remiss nor to throw ourselves into present pleasure for think it indeed great work to have acquired dominion but still much greater to have preserved it after having gained it No Grecian lawgiver ever thought of entirely abolishing ancient usage and becoming according to the modern phrase