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FAMOUS SONGS
" Home, sweet home ! an ample treasure, Home 1 with every blessing crown' d. Home 1 perpetual source of pleasure, Home ! a noble strain resound."
Brand says, in speaking of " Dulce Domum," which was originally written in Latin, and was translated into English by a writer in the " Gentleman's Magazine" for March 1796, that " it is doubtless of very remote antiquity," and that its origin must be traced "not to any ridiculous tradition, but to the tenderest feelings of human nature." The story runs as follows: Upwards of two hundred and fifty years ago, a scholar of St. Mary's College, Winchester, was confined for some misconduct by order of the master, just previous to the Whitsuntide vaca-tion, and was not permitted to visit his friends. He was kept a prisoner in the college, tied to" a pillar. His reflections on the enjoyments of home inspired him to compose " Dulce Domum." The student must have been of a very sensitive na-ture, for he died soon after, " worn down with grief at the disgraceful situation he was in," as well as disappointment. In commemoration of the event, on the evening preceding the Whitsun holidays, the masters, scholars, and choristers of St. Mary's College, attended by a band of music, walk in procession round the court and
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