James Clerk Maxwell Poems

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11.
A Student's Evening Hymn

I.

Now no more the slanting rays
With the mountain summits dally,
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12.
School Rhymes

O academic muse that hast for long
Charmed all the world with thy disciples’ song,
As myrtle bushes must give place to trees,
Our humbler strains can now no longer please.
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13.
On St. David's Day

To Mrs. E.C. Morrieson


’Twas not chance but deep design,
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14.
British Association, Notes Of The President's Address

In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,
Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness of men;
Till Commerce arose, and at length some men of exceptional power
Supplanted both demons and gods by the atoms, which last to this hour.
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Rigid Body (sings).


Gin a body meet a body
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16.
Recollections Of A Dreamland

Rouse ye! torpid daylight-dreamers, cast your carking cares away!
As calm air to troubled water, so my night is to your day;
All the dreary day you labour, groping after common sense,
And your eyes ye will not open on the night's magnificence.
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17.
Nathalocus

I.

Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,
As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,
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18.
Numa Pompilius

O well is thee! King Numa,
Within thy secret cave,
Where thy bones are ever moistened
By sad Egeria’s wave;
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19.
Report On Tait's Lecture On Force

Ye British Asses, who expect to hear
Ever some new thing,
I’ve nothing new to tell, but what, I fear,
May be a true thing.
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20.
An Onset

Hallo ye, my fellows! arise and advance,
See the white-crested waves how they stamp and they dance!
High over the reef there in anger and might,
So wildly we dance to the bloody red fight.
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