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ADVICE TO SCHOLARS, by                    
First Line: The honour school of jurisprudence
Last Line: Masters the secret of the fates
Subject(s): Oxford University;scholarship & Scholars


THE Honour School of Jurisprudence
hardly illuminates its students;
nor does a course of Modern History
throw light upon the cosmic mystery;
and men who take degrees in "Stinks"
solve not the riddle of the sphinx;
the English School is -- credit me --
a matrimonial agency.
Theology, we must confess,
claims more, but offers rather less.
But murmur of the cosmic drum
throbs through the study of Lit. Hum.
And he who takes a first in Greats
masters the secret of the Fates.





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