GENTLEMEN lately returned to your Colleges, There to repose from a vigorous Vac., Sadly imperfect the state of my knowledge is, What are the pleasures on which you look back? @3Was it Parisian, Meadows Elysian, Foys that would soften the heart of a Frisian, Moulin Roujollity, Rue de Rivolity, Carrying on with young ladies of quality?@1 Was it Bavarian, frankly agrarian, Far from the crowd as the Isthmus of Darien, House with a pretty gate far from the City gate, Hat with a feather and Lager unmitigate? @3Or Caledonian, walking Serbonian Bogs in pursuit of illusory cony, annoying neurotic and elderly partridges With a quite disproportionate outlay of cartridges?@1 Was it -- oh! finally, was it Tyrolean, Standing on top of a view like Napoleon, Mostly funicular, quite perpendicular, Lots of new friends, if you aren't so particular? @3Now you are back again where you can slack again, Reading of novels like "When it was Black" again Wearing of socks of a rainbow diversity: Sweet are the uses of our University.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEAVING THE HARBOR by LOUIS UNTERMEYER DURING WIND AND RAIN by THOMAS HARDY LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A) by GEORGE MEREDITH INDIFFERENCE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY POLLY by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS EHEU, FUGACES! by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |