back."

(2) Finish the uncompleted Limerick given in my Second Lecture, beginning:

There was a young man who said "_Hell!_
I don't think I feel very well."

(3) In your inaugural lecture you ask, "Is it true, or not, that the great
triumphs of poetical art often come suddenly?" The answer you give is most
unsatisfactory; give a better one now, illustrating the answer from your
own works.

(4) Write a Ballade of which the refrain is either--

(_a_) The situation is extremely grave;
or
(_b_) The Empire is not what it was;
or
(_c_) We lived to see Lord Birkenhead.

NOTE.--Extra marks will be given for an attempt at (_b_) because of the
shortage of rhymes to _was_.

(5) What would you do in the following circumstances? In May you have sent
a poem to an Editor, ending with the lines--

The soldiers cheered and cheered again--
It was the PRINCE OF WALES.

On July 20th the Editor writes and says that he likes the poem very much,