POEMS.
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Ere you should meet with further plight
And fickle Cupid with his dart
Should take a random aim and plant
The fatal arrow in your heart!
And fickle Cupid with his dart
Should take a random aim and plant
The fatal arrow in your heart!
Your academic gown put off
Exchange it for a suit of grey,
Come revel by the rippling brooks
And throw scholastic cares away.
Exchange it for a suit of grey,
Come revel by the rippling brooks
And throw scholastic cares away.
Forget the college and the dons,
The world of school, each striving brain
That seeks for knowledge, let them pass
And be a careless boy again.
The world of school, each striving brain
That seeks for knowledge, let them pass
And be a careless boy again.
Forget the toil, the grief, the strife,
The battle for an honoured name,
The hollowness of earthly pomp,
The goal that leads through tears to fame.
The battle for an honoured name,
The hollowness of earthly pomp,
The goal that leads through tears to fame.
Dear student! with your classic brow
Filled overfull with ancient lore,
Shut up your books, put pens away
And do not study anymore!
Filled overfull with ancient lore,
Shut up your books, put pens away
And do not study anymore!
FALLING LEAVES.
"We all do fade as a leaf."
IN the quiet dreamy woodlands where the shadows love to creep,
And the rivulet's low murmur sighs like to a soul in sleep
And the rivulet's low murmur sighs like to a soul in sleep
