Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SENIOR SCHEDULE, by MARY HOLLANDS MCLEAN


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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

A SENIOR SCHEDULE, by                    
First Line: We're a-studying of literature
Last Line: That it's all a beastly grind.
Subject(s): Universities & Colleges


WE'RE a-studying of Literature
As hard as e'er we can;
We dote on Revolutions
And the Brotherhood of Man.

We're returning to the People
With a truly Lyric Cry;
And for Democratic Spirit
We'd lay us down and die.

We're a-reading of Philosophy
To find out why we be,
And a-learning that External Worlds
Lie wholly in the Me.

We don't believe in Matter,
And of Mind we're not quite sure;
We're inclined to think Uncertainties
Most likely to endure.

We're a-studying Geology
Of Pre-historic Times,
Before the Tides of Primal Sea
Got written into rhymes;

When the "Old World spun forever,"
And the poets never knew it, --
And all the Rocks, and Stones, and Things,
Were nicely mixed up through it.

We're a-looking at Fine Pictures
Made by People what are dead;
And we criticize Cathedrals
With a Ruskin at our head.

We're a-growing awful learned, --
There's lots more of the kind, --
But we do not mind confessing
That it's all a Beastly Grind.





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