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When do the reasoning Powers decline	A
The Ancients said at Forty Nine	A
At Forty Nine behoves it then	B
To quit the Inkhorn and the Pen	B
Since ARISTOTLE so decreed	C
Premising thus we now proceed	C
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In that thrice favoured Northern Land	D
Where most the Flowers of Thought expand	D
And all things nebulous grow clear	E
Through Spectacles and Lager Beer	E
There lived at Dumpelsheim the Lesser	F
A certain High Dutch Herr Professor	F
Than GROTIUS more alert and quick	G
More logical than BURGERSDYCK	G
His Lectures both so much transcended	H
That far and wide his Fame extended	I
Proclaiming him to every clime	J
Within a Mile of Dumpelsheim	J
But chief he taught by Day and Night	K
The Doctrine of the Stagirite	K
Proving it fixed beyond Dispute	K
In Ways that none could well refute	K
For if by Chance 'twas urged that Men	B
O'er stepped the Limit now and then	B
He'd show unanswerably still	L
Either that all they did was Nil	L
Or else 'twas marked by Indication	M
Of grievous mental Degradation	M
Nay he could even trace they say	N
That Degradation to a Day	N
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The Years rolled on and as they flew	O
More famed the Herr Professor grew	O
His Locus of the Pineal Gland	K
A Masterpiece he long had planned	K
Had reached the End of Book Eleven	M
And he was nearing Forty Seven	M
Admirers had not long to wait	K
The last Book came at Forty Eight	K
And should have been the Heart and Soul	P
The Crown and Summit of the whole	P
But now the oddest Thing ensued	K
'Twas so insufferably crude	K
So feeble and so poor 'twas plain	Q
The Writer's Mind was on the wane	Q
Nothing could possibly be said	K
E'en Friendship's self must hang the head	K
While jealous Rivals scarce so civil	R
Denounced it openly as Drivel	R
Never was such Collapse In brief	S
The poor Professor died of Grief	S
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With fitting mortuary Rhyme	J
They buried him at Dumpelsheim	J
And as they sorrowing set about	K
A Short Memoir the Truth came out	K
He had been older than he knew	O
The Parish Clerk had put a	T
In place of Nought and made his Date	K
Of Birth a Brace of Years too late	K
When he had written Book the Last	K
His true Climacteric had past	K
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MORAL To estimate your Worth	U
Be certain as to date of Birth	U

Henry Austin Dobson

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