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 The grey tower rocks and trembles into sound, Dawn-smitten Memnon of a happier hour; Through faint-hued fields

the silver waters creep: Day grows, birds pipe, and robed anew and crowned,
Green Spring trips forth to set the world aflower." The tower was put to a far different use when, in the Civil War, it was the fortress against an attack from the east, and stones were piled on its top to overwhelm any invader who might

force the bridge. Tradition
connects this tower with the name of Magdalen's

greatest son, Thomas Wolsey, who took his B.A. about 1486,

at the age of fifteen, as he himself in his old age proudly told his servant and biographer, Cavendish. Certainty he was first Junior and then Senior Bursar for a time, while the tower was building,
1492-1504.
But the scandal that he had to resign his bursarship
for misappropriation of funds in connection with the tower may certainly be rejected. On

the right of Magdalen Bridge, looking at the tower, as we see it in the picture, stretches Magdalen Meadow, round which run the famous water walks. The part of these on the
north-west side is especially connected with Joseph Addison, who was a fellow at Magdalen from 1697 to 1711. He was elected "demy" (at Magdalen,
scholars bear this name) the first year (1689) after the Revolution, when the fellows of Magdalen had been restored to their rights, so outrageously invaded by King James. This "golden" election was famous in Magdalen annals, at once for the number elected--seventeen--and for the fame of some of those elected. Besides th