Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nostri cantus sit judicium Vestrum, 0 formosEe, mite; Almse Matri nos ofRcium Pium reddimus. Audita. Tibi volunt, Alma Mater, Nati tui omnia bona ; Tibi amor cordum datur Aurea ferenti dona. Sa3cla floreas in futura; Nihil doceas nisi varum; Parcant tibi Fata dura, Parcat Tempus edax rerum. [Professor Blackie has done these lines the honour of giving a free translation of them in his Musa Burschicosa, which with his kind sanction is inserted here.] Lads of grace that love the Muses, Sing a stave of blithesome measure; He's a plodding fool who chooses Books in evening hour of leisure. Some one wrote a useful warning, Much who knows increases sorrow; We shall have enough of learning If we cram our brain to-morrow. See the fair ones come to hear us, Drest in dainty bloom before us ! If with ready smile they cheer us, That's the fee that pays our chorus. Gentle dames whom we love dearly, Mother fair and fairer daughter, Judge the students not severely When they hymn their Alma Mater.