Oxford as a city of sweet
song.

There is no more to say--or rather there is no space in which to say
it--and thoughts which have been revelling in Oxford's loveliness must
be turned once more to the homelier duties from which they have for a
while escaped, and he who writes must lay aside his pen all sorrowful
that on such a theme he could no better write.

And he who reads? Surely someone will say "So this is Oxford! This is
the chief of all our seats of learning, and no word of wise professors
or of lecture halls!" Just so. It is not at the lectures men learn most.
It is the spirit of the place, the friends they make, the living in an
atmosphere so fair and sweet, that counts for almost all. It must be
that, wherever they may walk in after years, their share in what has
been wrought so beautiful and hallowed by the life and work of noble
men, will tend to guide their footsteps in the higher path.

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