"ONE CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIFE."
[TO VIE EDITOR Or TER "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—Some little time ago you printed a letter from me con- taining a Greek translation of some lines by Sir Henry Newbolt. Will you now let me offer you a Latin quatrain, a version of Sir Walter Scott's well-known 'words? A friend of mine the other day, an old schoolmaster, not satisfied that some renderings he had seen were sufficiently close to the original, challenged me to try my hand. Here is the result :—
" Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim: One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."
Idem Latina redditum.
Classics die resenent, repleatur tibia flatu 1
Curs outis nimium queis plaza haecce tons Plus una hors valet factis cumulataque fama. Quam saeolum solidum quod sine laude datur.
Magdalen College, Oxford.
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