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We took a hundredweight of books	A
To Windermere between us	B
Our dons had blessed our studious looks	A
Had they by chance but seen us	B
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Maine Blackstone Sandars all were there	C
And Hallam's Middle Ages	D
And Austin with his style so rare	C
And Poste's enticing pages	D
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We started well the little inn	E
Was deadly dull and quiet	F
As dull as Mrs Wood's East Lynne	E
Or as the verse of Wyatt	F
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Without distraction thus we read	G
From nine until eleven	H
Then rowed and sailed until we fed	G
On potted char at seven	H
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Two hours of work We could devote	I
Next day to recreation	H
Much illness springs so doctors note	I
From lack of relaxation	H
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Let him read law on summer days	J
Who has a soul that grovels	J
Better one tale of Thackeray's	J
Than all Justinian's novels	J
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At noon we went upon the lake	K
We could not stand the slowness	J
Of our lone inn so dined on steak	K
They called it steak at Bowness	J
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We wrestled with the steak when lo	L
Rose Jack in such a hurry	M
He saw a girl he used to know	L
In Suffolk or in Surrey	M
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What matter which to think that she	M
Should lure him from his duty	M
For Jack I knew would always be	M
A very slave to beauty	M
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And so it proved alas for Jack	N
Grew taciturn and thinner	O
Was out all day alone and back	N
Too often late for dinner	O
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What could I do His walks and rows	J
All led to one conclusion	H
I could not read our work heaven knows	J
Was nothing but confusion	H
	-
Like Jack I went about alone	P
Saw Wordsworth's writing table	Q
And made the higher by a stone	P
The man upon Great Gable	Q
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At last there came a sudden pause	J
To all his wanderings solus	J
He learned what writers on the laws	J
Of Rome had meant by dolus	J
	-
The Suffolk was it Surrey flirt	R
Without a pang threw over	O
Poor Jack and all his works like dirt	R
And caught a richer lover	O
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We read one morning more to say	J
We had not been quite idle	Q
And then to end the arduous day	J
Enjoyed a swim in Rydal	Q
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Next day the hundredweight of books	J
Was packed once more in cases	J
We left the lakes and hills and brooks	J
And southward turned our faces	J
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Three months and then the Oxford Schools	J
Our unbelieving college	S
Saw better than ourselves what fools	J
Pretend sometimes to knowledge	T
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Curst questions Jack did only one	H
He gave as his opinion	H
That of the Roman jurists none	H
Had lived before Justinian	H
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I answered two but all I did	U
Was lacking in discretion	H
I reckoned guardianship amid	U
The vitia of possession	H
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My second shot was wider still	Q
I held that commodata	U
Could not attest a pr tor's will	Q
Because of culpa lata	U
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We waited fruitlessly that night	U
There came no blue testamur A	U
Nor was Jack's heavy heart made light	U
By that sweet word Amamur	O

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