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Last Line: And make my bow before our lady dean
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Universities & Colleges; Learning; Poetry & Poets


Sole scholar of your college I appear.
Plenipotential for the party here
Assembled, elegantly to present
Their salutations and my compliment.

Awhile ago, when I came to your hands I came
I tripped on commas, stumbled at a name.
Browsed like the sheep of some ungenerous breeder
On that lean pasture-land, a First Reader.

Since when, by you presented, early and late,
I sit and feast with all the good andx great.
And pass the flagon round, and praise my lot,
With Burns and Byron, Addison and Scott.

Since when, a practiced knight, fear laid aside,
Through verbal Alps, unfaltering I ride.
With polysyllables prove a past practioner,
And need not blush before a Land Commissioner.

For which good gifts, they chose me (choosing right),
To grace with speech the ritual of the night;
Deliver his rough verse wsith easy mien
And make my bow before our Lady Dean.





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