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To William Morris Pierson	A
	B
	-
Of the wealth of facts and fancies	C
That our memories may recall	D
The old school day romances	E
Are the dearest after all	D
When some sweet thought revises	E
The half forgotten tune	F
That opened 'Exercises'	E
On 'Friday Afternoon '	-
	-
We seem to hear the clicking	G
Of the pencil and the pen	H
And the solemn ceaseless ticking	G
Of the timepiece ticking then	H
And we note the watchful master	I
As he waves the warning rod	J
With our own heart beating faster	I
Than the boy's who threw the wad	J
	-
Some little hand uplifted	K
And the creaking of a shoe	L
A problem left unsifted	K
For the teacher's hand to do	K
The murmured hum of learning	G
And the flutter of a book	M
The smell of something burning	G
And the school's inquiring look	M
	-
The bashful boy in blushes	E
And the girl with glancing eyes	E
Who hides her smiles and hushes	E
The laugh about to rise	E
Then with a quick invention	A
Assumes a serious face	E
To meet the words 'Attention	A
Every scholar in his place '	-
	-
The opening song page	N
Ah dear old 'Golden Wreath '	-
You willed your sweets in plenty	K
And some who look beneath	O
The leaves of Time will linger	I
And loving tears will start	K
As Fancy trails her finger	I
O'er the index of the heart	K
	-
'Good News from Home' We hear it	K
Welling tremulous yet clear	P
And holy as the spirit	K
Of the song we used to hear	Q
'Good news for me' A throbbing	G
And an aching melody	K
'Has come across the' sobbing	G
Yea and salty 'dark blue sea '	-
	-
Or the paean 'Scotland's burning '	-
With its mighty surge and swell	R
Of chorus still returning	G
To its universal yell	R
Till we're almost glad to drop to	K
Something sad and full of pain	A
And 'Skip verse three ' and stop too	K
Ere our hearts are broke again	A
	-
Then 'the big girls'' compositions	E
With their doubt and hope and glow	S
Of heart and face conditions	E
Of 'the big boys' even so	S
When themes of 'Spring ' and 'Summer'	Q
And of 'Fall ' and 'Winter time'	T
Droop our heads and hold us dumber	Q
Than the sleigh bell's fancied chime	T
	-
Elocutionary science	E
Still in changeless infancy	K
With its 'Cataline's Defiance '	-
And 'The Banner of the Free'	Q
Or lured from Grandma's attic	U
A ramshackle 'rocker' there	Q
Adds a skreek of the dramatic	U
To the poet's 'Old Arm Chair '	-
	-
Or the 'Speech of Logan' shifts us	E
From the pathos to the fire	Q
And Tell with Gessler lifts us	E
Many noble notches higher	Q
Till a youngster far from sunny	K
With sad eyes of watery blue	K
Winds up with something 'funny '	-
Like 'Cock a doodle do '	-
	-
Then a dialogue selected	K
For its realistic worth	V
The Cruel Boy detected	K
With a turtle turned to earth	V
Back downward and in pleading	G
The Good Boy strangely gay	W
At such a sad proceeding	G
Says 'Turn him over pray '	-
	-
So the exercises taper	Q
Through gradations of delight	K
To the reading of 'The Paper '	-
Which is entertaining quite	K
For it goes ahead and mentions	E
'If a certain Mr O	S
Has serious intentions	E
That he ought to tell her so '	-
	-
It also 'Asks permission	A
To intimate to 'John'	A
The dubious condition	A
Of the ground he's standing on'	A
And dropping the suggestion	A
To 'mind what he's about '	-
It stuns him with the question	A
'Does his mother know he's out '	-
	-
And among the contributions	E
To this 'Academic Press'	E
Are 'Versified Effusions'	E
By 'Our lady editress'	E
Which fact is proudly stated	K
By the CHIEF of the concern	A
'Though the verse communicated	K
Bears the pen name 'Fanny Fern ' '	-
	-
	-
When all has been recited	K
And the teacher's bell is heard	K
And visitors invited	K
Have dropped a kindly word	K
A hush of holy feeling	G
Falls down upon us there	Q
As though the day were kneeling	G
With the twilight for the prayer	Q
	-
	-
Midst the wealth of facts and fancies	E
That our memories may recall	D
Thus the old school day romances	E
Are the dearest after all	D
When some sweet thought revises	E
The half forgotten tune	A
That opened 'Exercises '	-
On 'Friday Afternoon '	-

James Whitcomb Riley

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