XL

=Cambridge=

[This poem is written in pencil on the fly-leaf of a copy of _Poems_

1833 in the Dyce Collection in South Kensington Museum. Reprinted with

many alterations in _Life_, vol. I, p. 67.]

Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges,

Your portals statued with old kings and queens,

Your bridges and your busted libraries,

Wax-lighted chapels and rich carved screens,

Your doctors and your proctors and your deans

Shall not avail you when the day-beam sports

New-risen o'er awakened Albion--No,

Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow

Melodious thunders through your vacant courts

At morn and even; for your manner sorts

Not with this age, nor with the thoughts that roll,

Because the words of little children preach

Against you,--ye that did profess to teach

And have taught nothing, feeding on the soul.

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