Vivien's Song. At The L.L.A. Examination

"In the hard familiar horse-box I am sitting once again;     Creeping back to old St. Andrews comes the slow North British train,     Bearing be"

"What the end the gods have destined unto thee and unto me,     Ask not: 'tis forbidden knowledge.    Be content, Leuconoe.     Let alone the for"

"O swallow-tailed purveyor of college sprees,     O skilled to please the student fraternity,          Most honoured publican of Scotland,"

"The sun shines fair on Tweedside, the river flowing bright,     Your heart is full of pleasure, your eyes are full of light,     Your cheeks are"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"