Note 482 — Chapter VI · GIRTON AND NEWNHAM
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Another clergyman also—the Rev. E. W. Bowling, afterwards rector of Houghton Conquest, and a light blue champion in the boat race.
Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum, Thursday Feb. 24. 1881.
Aemilia Girtonensis By the Nine Muses swore That the great house of Girton Should suffer wrong no more. By the Mutes Nine she swore it And named a voting day . . . . . . . . . . But by the yellow Camus Was tumult and affright . . . . . . . . . . ‘O Varius, Father Varius, To whom the Trojans pray, The ladies are upon us! We look to thee this day!’ . . . . . . . . . . The Three stood calm and silent And frowned upon their foes, As a great shout of laughter From the four hundred rose.