Deel No. 8 - 'A new Song to an old Fling'

1 folded sheet, MS.

'Published by the Society for the Propagation of Christianity among the Dons'. Parody of Tennyson's Lady of the Lake. First lines, 'He's lazy, he's lazy, is old Greenwood / In his nest our sweet Bird is singing'. With explanatory notes naming the Fellows referred to in the poem.

Tipped into R.1.75.

An account of the attempt by the Master and Seniority of Trinity to force all undergraduates to attend Chapel at least eight times a week, which led to the forming of the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates' and the writing of several verses such as this, can be found in Ball, W. W. Rouse. Cambridge Papers. London: Macmillan, 1918, Chap. 4 (pp. 71-83)

The first three verses of this poem are printed in Shipley, A. E. “J.” A Memoir of John Willis Clark... Cambridge. Cambridge University Press; 2011. Chap. 2 (pp. 37-38).