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AD CHLOEN, M.A.; FRESH FROM HER CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION, by                    
First Line: Lady, very fair are you
Last Line: Magistra.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Women


(FRESH FROM HER CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION)

LADY, very fair are you,
And your eyes are very blue,
And your hose;
And your brow is like the snow,
And the various things you know
Goodness knows.

And the rose-flush on your cheek,
And your algebra and Greek
Perfect are;
And that loving lustrous eye
Recognizes in the sky
Every star.

You have pouting piquant lips,
You can doubtless an eclipse
Calculate;
But for your caerulean hue,
I had certainly from you
Met my fate.

If by an arrangement dual
I were Adams mixed with Whewell,
Then some day
I, as wooer, perhaps might come
To so sweet an Artium
Magistra.





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