Second Strings

Excerpt from Second Strings
The Candid Critic
BY Alma Mater's drowsy ways
A Critic came to scan her:
He saw with comprehensive gaze
Each custom and each manner:
Each phase he viewed and noted it -
All Oxford's various glories -
The Don, the Blue, the School of Lit erae Humaniores.
"When Movements move," that Critic said,
"And souls for light are yearning,
Phenomena like these degrade
Your would-be seat of Learning:
'Twixt what you Do and what you Ought
There yawns a boundless distance -
I fail to find, though long I've sought,
Your reason of existence!"
"I know," I cried, "we rouse your wrath
With faults that none can number:
Yet ere we're swept from out your path
As merely useless lumber -
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