A LAMENT. IN SIX WAILS.
(By a Junior Scholarship candidate who found himself in Honours, but out flf pocket. 'Xo be snug iuaminorJey, Aflat.) I. Good people, come list to ray ditty, So wofui and 6hamef ul and sad ; Your eyes will run over with pity At the woes of an innocent iad. Those terrible girls, With their dimples and curls, Their lips so likn rubies, their teeth so 75ke pearls. With their dear little fee!, cased in slipped of antin* Go iv now for Greek, mathematics, and LaMui For Greek, mathematics, and Latin, Juat think ! For Greek, mathematics, nnd Latin 1 ir. Those malapert; damsels forsooth they must orave For their talents a Held that \s ampler ; Not content like their aunts and fcheir mothers, to slave At pickle 3 and pic 3 and a sampler : ?othoßt)ter;ib'.o misaes, Meaut only for kisses, Plunge tearlf SB headfirst into learning's abysses Trigonometry, algebra, Euclid they're pat in, And botany, chemistry, physics, aud Latin Aud chemistry, phyaiCs, and Latiu, Just' think! And chemistry, physics, and Latin ! 111. To the 'Varsity cla«Kes of course they must, go, Cheeky things from the High Scliool or college, And the impudent chits carry off, you mnafc know, The •' icwards and distinctions " ot knowledge. Oh, those terrible chits, With their keen little wifcs. They've licked, Dr B snys, the breeches to fits In every confounded exam, they have Batin. Whether botany, chemistry, physics, or Latiu Whether chemistry, physics, or Latirj Just think I Whether chemistry, physics, or Latin ! IV. To compete with us lads is n't fair, you must know, Dr B. s.iys the guU are precocious, For their wits grow as fast as their hair", you must know (The unfairnosj of girls is atrocious !). Yet how we adore 'em, As they lisp their hi, horum, Or d-iintily trip o'er the Pons Asiuorum While we denser mnlea. vesper, mid day, or matin, Mus'j plod Miroiigo our algebra, Kuclid, or Latin Ouralg- brrt, Euclid, or /.atiti Just think! Our algebra, Euclid, or Latiu ! v. To tell what it's all coming to I am beat, And so arc <.ur pundits and r-ctors— Stokes, Creigbton, or I)ar>»in, or B r, or Skeat, With their figures and facts tind conjectures. Honr.anes (loa. sit.) vowing, And Iksanb pooh-poohing. That; Providence ouly made girls for wooing. Cold cheer for a Blow-growing lad who's a flat iv Trigonometry. alg«-bra, Kudid. and Latin. In algebra, Eucli' 1 , and I nfin. .hut think! In algebra, Kuclid and Latin ! VI. Our doctors and skippers will soon be all girls, And so will our persons and lawyers, And our judges will sit in their natural curls, Whilst the boys an> navvies nnd sawyers ; Nay . a female may rule In the Boys' Higu School, And flourish the cane from the rector's high stool, Then -woe to the youngster who f tils to be pat In His numbers, and oases, nnd genders in Latin. Hisca3i;B and genders in Latin. Oh mv ! ! ! His case 3 and genders in Latiu.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 13
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578A LAMENT. IN SIX WAILS. Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 13
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