Poems of Arthur Clough Author:Arthur Hugh Clough General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wh... more »ere you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE BOTHIE OF TOBER-NA-VUOLICH; A LONG-VACATION PASTORAL Nunc formosissimns annus lte metefelix quondam pecus, tie camencp. THE BOTHIE OF TOBER-NA-VUOLICH Socii cratera, coronant It was the afternoon ; and the sports were now at the ending. Long had the stone been put, tree cast, and thrown the hammer; Up the perpendicular hill, Sir Hector so called it, Eight stout gillies had run, with speed and agility wondrous: Run too the course on the level had been ; the leaping was over: Last in the show of dress, a novelty recently added, Noble ladies their prizes adjudged for costume that was perfect, Turning the clansmen about, as they stood with upraised elbows ; Bowing their eye-glassed brows, and fingering kilt and sporran. It was four of the clock, and the sports were come to the ending, Therefore the Oxford party went off to adorn for the- dinner. Be it recorded in song who was first, who last, in dressing. Hope was first, black-tied, white-waistcoated, simple, His Honour; For the postman made out he was heir to the earldom of Hay (Being the younger son of the younger brother, the Colonel), Treated him therefore with special respect ; doffed bonnet, and ever Called him His Honour : His Honour he therefore was at the cottage; Always His Honour at least, sometimes the Viscount of Hay. Hope was first, His Honour, and next to His Honour the Tutor. Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it; ...« less