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Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Seventh of July 1835, M.DCCC.XXXV

At the First Commencement after the Installation, and in the Presence, of the Most Noble John Jeffreys, Chancellor of the University [by Christopher Wordsworth]

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Whither, Sage Nereids, ye who dwell

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Beneath the boundless Intellectual deep;
And there in Starry Grot, and Coral Cell
Your twilight Vigils keep;
Whither, your realms mysterious to explore,
Is the sacred Vessel bound?

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More holy than that yearly Bark which bore
With dash of silver oar,
And lute's soft sound,
Its festal Pageant to the Delian shore,
While the Earth laugh'd, and Airs ambrosial play'd around.