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Addressed during the Summer Term of by Mr Algernon Dexter Scholar of College Oxford to his cousin Miss Kitty Tremayne at Vicarage Devonshire	A
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After W M P	B
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Dear Kitty	B
At length the term's ending	C
I 'm in for my Schools in a week	D
And the time that at present I'm spending	C
On you should be spent upon Greek	D
But I'm fairly well read in my Plato	E
I'm thoroughly red in the eyes	F
And I've almost forgotten the way to	G
Be healthy and wealthy and wise	F
So 'the best of all ways' why repeat you	G
The verse at a m	H
When I 'm stealing an hour to entreat you	G
Dear Kitty to come to Commem	H
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Oh come You shall rustle in satin	I
Through halls where Examiners trod	J
Your laughter shall triumph o'er Latin	I
In lecture room garden and quad	J
They stand in the silent Sheldonian	I
Our orators waiting for you	G
Their style guaranteed Ciceronian	I
Their subject 'the Ladies in Blue '	-
The Vice sits arrayed in his scarlet	K
He's pale but they say he dissem	H
bles by calling his Beadle a 'varlet'	K
Whenever he thinks of Commem	H
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There are dances flirtations at Nuneham	H
Flower shows the procession of Eights	L
There's a list stretching usque ad Lunam	H
Of concerts and lunches and fetes	L
There's the Newdigate all about 'Gordon '	-
So sweet and they say it will scan	I
You shall flirt with a Proctor a Warden	I
Shall run for your shawl and your fan	I
They are sportive as gods broken loose from	H
Olympus and yet very em	H
inent men There are plenty to choose from	H
You'll find if you come to Commem	H
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I know your excuses Red Sorrel	M
Has stumbled and broken her knees	L
Aunt Phoebe thinks waltzing immoral	M
And 'Algy you are such a tease	L
It's nonsense of course but she is strict'	K
And little Dick Hodge has the croup	N
And there's no one to visit your 'district'	K
Or make Mother Tettleby's soup	N
Let them cease for a se'nnight to plague you	G
Oh leave them to manage pro tem	H
With their croups and their soups and their ague	D
Dear Kitty and come to Commem	H
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Don't tell me Papa has lumbago	D
That you haven't a frock fit to wear	O
That the curate 'has notions and may go	D
To lengths if there's nobody there '	-
That the Squire has 'said things' to the Vicar	P
And the Vicar 'had words' with the Squire	A
That the Organist's taken to liquor	P
And leaves you to manage the choir	P
For Papa must be cured and the curate	K
Coerced and your gown is a gem	H
And the moral is Don't be obdurate	K
Dear Kitty but come to Commem	H
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'My gown Though no doubt sir you're clever	P
You 'd better leave fashions alone	I
Do you think that a frock lasts for ever '	-
Dear Kitty I'll grant you have grown	I
But I thought of my 'scene' with McVittie	K
That night when he trod on your train	I
At the Bachelor's Ball ''Twas a pity '	-
You said but I knew 'twas Champagne	I
And your gown was enough to compel me	H
To fall down and worship its hem	H
Are 'hems' wearing If not you shall tell me	H
What is when you come to Commem	H
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Have you thought since that night of the Grotto	K
Of the words whispered under the palms	L
While the minutes flew by and forgot to	K
Remind us of Aunt and her qualms	L
Of the stains of the old Journalisten	I
Of the rose that I begged from your hair	O
When you turned and I saw something glisten	I
Dear Kitty don't frown it was there	O
But that idiot Delane in the middle	M
Bounced in with 'Our dance I ahem '	-
And the rose you may find in my Liddell	M
And Scott when you come to Commem	H
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Then Kitty let 'yes' be the answer	P
We'll dance at the 'Varsity Ball	Q
And the morning shall find you a dancer	P
In Christ Church or Trinity hall	Q
And perhaps when the elders are yawning	D
And rafters grow pale overhead	K
With the day there shall come with its dawning	D
Some thought of that sentence unsaid	K
Be it this be it that 'I forget ' or	R
'Was joking' whatever the fem	H
inine fib you'll have made me your debtor	P
And come you will come to Commem	H

Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch

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