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Good morning Karlene It's a very	A
Fine beautiful world we are in	B
Well you do look as ripe as a berry	A
And pardon me such a real chin	B
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And may I Ah thank you the pleasure	C
Is mine just one kiss by your ear	D
May I introduce myself as your	E
Most dutiful godfather dear	F
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I have fumed like champagne that is fizzy	G
To pay my respects at your door	E
But the publishers keep one so busy	G
Forgive my not calling before	E
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Karlene you're a very small lady	G
To venture so far all alone	H
Especially into so shady	G
A place as this planet has grown	H
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When I now my dear was at your age	I
When nobody tried to be rich	J
But lived on high thinking and porridge	K
And didn't know t' other from which	J
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For a girl to go out unattended	L
Was considered not only unwise	G
And improper Our grandmothers ended	M
By lifting to heaven their eyes	G
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And yet even now though it's shocking	N
To slander these wonderful years	G
I dare say an inch of black stocking	N
Could set all the world by the ears	G
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Black mind you not blue It's a trifle	O
But trifling in stockings won't do	P
For love has an eye like a rifle	O
His bandage is slipping askew	P
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But there You are simply too charming	N
No doubt you'll be modern enough	Q
Though the speed of the world is alarming	N
To win with a delicate bluff	Q
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As we say when we're raking the chips in	B
On a hand that was not over strong	R
But I see you are pursing your lips in	B
Perhaps I am prating too long	R
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Anyhow you'll be learned in isms	G
And talk pterodactyls in French	S
And know polyhedrons from prisms	G
Though you may not know how to retrench	S
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You will fall out of love with digamma	T
To fall in again with Delsarte	P
You will make a new Syriac grammar	C
And know all the popes off by heart	P
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What Socrates said to Xantippe	U
When the lash of her tongue made him grieve	V
What makes the banana peel slippy	U
And what the snake whispered to Eve	V
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The music that Nero had played him	T
When Rome was touched off with a match	W
Why the king let the lady upbraid him	T
For burning her buns in a batch	W
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Why Hebrew is written left handed	P
And what Venus did with her arms	G
What the Conqueror said when he landed	P
The acres in Horace's farms	G
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The use of hirundo and passer	C
All this you will probe to the pith	X
As a freshman at Wellesley or Vassar	C
Or Bryn Mawr though I prefer Smith	X
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You will solve every riddle in Browning	N
And learn how to paddle and swim	T
And save other people from drowning	N
And play basket ball in the gym	T
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But you'll scorn to know why there's a tax on	Y
All reading that isn't a bore	E
When Mallarm eacute 's filtered through Saxon	Z
And the Symbolists come to the fore	E
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All winter you'll read mathematics	G
Oh you'll be a terrible prod	P
And in June at the Senior Dramatics	G
You will play like a star But it's odd	P
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Since you'll quote every cadence in Kipling	N
And Arnold of course I mean Matt	P
If you don't make a bard of some stripling	N
Before he knows where he is at	P
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I am sure you'll be lovely as Trilby	G
The loveliest bud of the year	F
But remember Karlene I shall still be	G
Your doting old godfather dear	F
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When you hear Archimedes' conundrum	T
Like enough you'll be wanting to try	A2
Whether one little girl contra mundum	T
Can't lift the old thing with a pry	A2
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You will turn up your nose at poor Thy will	B2
With a haughty agnostical sniff	C2
Till you find the imperative I will	B2
Has a future conditional if	C2
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And then you will come to your senses	G
And find out why women were made	P
And men too and why there are fences	G
All round the whole lot where you strayed	P
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While you wore yourself down to a shadow	P
Yet failed to discover your sphere	F
For you'll see Adam down in the meadow	P
And think what a goosey you were	C
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And then when your classmates are singing	N
Once more for good by the old glees	G
And the round painted lanterns are swinging	N
And sputtering out in the trees	G
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When everything stales and withers	G
Except the great stars up above	D2
Your heartstrings will all go to smithers	G
You'll just be one crumple of love	D2
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And Adam will be such a duffer	C
Dear fellow I mean he'll contrive	E2
Till you make him to not make him suffer	C
The happiest mortal alive	E2
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Oh it makes me too ill to continue	P
Imagining how it will be	G
When some dapper youth comes to win you	P
And smiles condescension on me	G
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I shall loathe his immaculate breeding	N
And advise you in time to refuse	G
To think he will share in your reading	N
And even unbutton your shoes	G
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And yet when for that precious laddie	P
Your hair is all crinkled and curled	P
I guess you'll be just like your daddy	P
The dearest old soul in the world	P

Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey

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