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What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!…
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!


A. D. Godley

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A. D. Godley

A. D. Godley

Born: 1856
Died: 1925 (aged 69)
Bio: Alfred Denis Godley was an English classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees.
Known for:
  1. The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments (1912)
  2. Lyra Frivola (1899)
  3. Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908)
  4. Socrates And Athenian Society In His Day (1896)

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