’Twas not chance but deep design, Tho’ of whom I can’t divine Made the courtly Valentine (Corpulent saint and bishop) Such a time with Bob to stay:——

At quite uncertain times and place… The atoms left their heavenly path… And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling toge…

The tendrils of my soul are twined With thine, though many a mile apa… And thine in close coiled circuits… Around the needle of my heart. Constant as Daniel, strong as Gro…

Now no more the slanting rays With the mountain summits dally, Now no more in crimson blaze Evening’s fleecy cloudless rally, Soon shall Night front off the va…

Rigid Body (sings). Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

I come from fields of fractured ic… Whose wounds are cured by squeezin… Melting they cool, but in a trice, Get warm again by freezing. Here, in the frosty air, the spray…

O wretched race of men, to space c… What honour can ye pay to him, who… To that which lies beyond hath pen… The symbols he bath formed shall s… And lead him on through unimagined…

If ony here has got an ear, He’d better tak’ a haud o’ me, Or I’ll begin, wi’ roarin’ din, To cheer our old Academy. Dear old Academy,

Why, when our sun shines clearest, Why, when our hopes seen nearest, Why, when our life feels dearest, Rises a secret pain— Hope’s perfect mirror broken—

In the buds, before they burst, Leaves and flowers are moulded; Closely pressed they lie at first, Exquisitely folded. Though no hope of change they felt…

In the sad November time, When the leaf has left the lime, And the Cam, with sludge and slim… Plasters his ugly channel, While, with sober step and slow,

PLACE. —A small alcove with dar… The class consists of one member. SUBJECT.—Thomson’s Mirror Gal… The lamp—light falls on blackened… And streams through narrow perfora…

Thair is a knichte rydis through t… And a doughty knichte is tree, And sure hee is on a message sent, He rydis see hastilie. Hee passit the aik, and hee passit…

Hallo ye, my fellows! arise and ad… See the white—crested waves how th… High over the reef there in anger… So wildly we dance to the bloody r… Than gather, now gather, come gath…