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First Line: Gods of the union unrepresentative
Last Line: (gully has said it, and gully must know).
Subject(s): Debates; Oxford University


GODS of the Union unrepresentative
(Gully has said it, and Gully must know),
What shall we do to make Fashion frequentative,
Get the Best People to sit in a row?

For if we cannot attract Aristocracy
(Gully has said it, and Gully must know),
Down will the Union fall to Democracy,
Meaning of course that our glory must go.

So let us do with our fullest capacity
All that we can to draw Fashion in crowds,
And to enlist the unrivalled sagacity
Hidden in Vincent's and buried in O.U.D.S.

Now let us drag from their modest obscurity
All the good people "not heard in the High,"
Contaminating their innocent purity,
Teaching the loud and political lie.

So you must cultivate stable society,
Keeping a monocle well in your eye;
Season your speech with a mild impropriety,
But above all have a Union tie!

Buy for your library volumes equestrian,
Posts that are Winning and ones that are Pink;
Get a fur-coat like a Polar pedestrian,
Turn the Debating Hall into a Rink.

This shall we do to make Fashion frequentative,
Get the Best People to sit in a row,
Gods of the Union unrepresentative
(Gully has said it, and Gully must know).





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