laboured for
many days and many nights; beginning it in joy and ending it in sorrow.
The College in which I have for the most part written it is designated in
the preamble of its Charter and in its Foundation Statutes, (which are
already much more than half a thousand years old,) as _Collegium
Scholarium in Sacra Theologia studentium,--perpetuis temporibus duraturum_.
Indebted, under GOD, to the pious munificence of the Founder of Oriel for
my opportunities of study, I venture, in what I must needs call evil days,
to hope that I have to some extent "employed my advantages,"--(the
expression occurs in a prayer used by this Society on its three solemn
anniversaries,)--as our Founder and Benefactors "would approve if they were
now upon earth to witness what we do."

J. W. B.

ORIEL,
_July, 1871_.

THE LAST TWELVE VERSES.

_Subjoined, for convenience, are_ "the Last Twelve Verses."

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