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Oculus Britanniae

An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst]
 
 

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Through these religious vallies as I stray,
What crouds of ancient worthies throng the way?
The ghosts of old philosophers appear,
That once adorn'd the place and flourish'd here:
Muse, tune thy voice, in homage bend thy head,
And pay just honours to the learned dead.