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IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, where yon undistinguished grave
Last Line: Save b -- (?).
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Examinations; Oxford University


LO, where yon undistinguished grave
Erects its grassy pile on
One who to all Experience gave
An Alpha or Epsilon!

The world and eke the world's content,
And all therein that passes,
With marks numerical (per cent.)
He did dispose in classes:

Not his to ape the critic crew
Which vulgarly appraises
The Good, the Beautiful, the True
In literary phrases:

He did his estimate express
In terms precise and weighty, --
And Vice got 25 (or less),
While Virtue rose to 80.

Now hath he closed his earthly lot
All in his final haven, --
(And be the stone that marks the spot
On one side only graven),

Bring papers on his grave to strew
Amid the grass and clover,
And plant thereby that pencil blue
Wherewith he looked them over!

There, freed from every human ill
And fleshly trammels gross, he
Lies in his resting-place until
The final Viva Voce:

So let him rest till crack of doom
Of mortal tasks aweary, --
And nothing write upon his tomb
Save B -- (?).





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