Post-prandial - Phi Beta Kappa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EEEE EEEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLEE| Wendell Phillips Orator Charles Godfrey Leland Poet | A |
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| The Dutch have taken Holland so the schoolboys used to say | B |
| The Dutch have taken Harvard no doubt of that to day | B |
| For the Wendells were low Dutchmen and all their vrows were Vans | C |
| And the Breitmanns are high Dutchmen and here is honest Hans | D |
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| Mynheers you both are welcome Fair cousin Wendell P | E |
| Our ancestors were dwellers beside the Zuyder Zee | E |
| Both Grotius and Erasmus were countrymen of we | E |
| And Vondel was our namesake though he spelt it with a V | E |
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| It is well old Evert Jansen sought a dwelling over sea | E |
| On the margin of the Hudson where he sampled you and me | E |
| Through our grandsires and great grandsires for you would n't quite agree | E |
| With the steady going burghers along the Zuyder Zee | E |
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| Like our Motley's John of Barnveld you have always been inclined | F |
| To speak well somewhat frankly to let us know your mind | F |
| And the Mynheers would have told you to be cautious what you said | G |
| Or else that silver tongue of yours might cost your precious head | G |
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| But we're very glad you've kept it it was always Freedom's own | H |
| And whenever Reason chose it she found a royal throne | H |
| You have whacked us with your sceptre our backs were little harmed | I |
| And while we rubbed our bruises we owned we had been charmed | I |
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| And you our quasi Dutchman what welcome should be yours | J |
| For all the wise prescriptions that work your laughter cures | J |
| Shake before taking not a bit the bottle cure's a sham | K |
| Take before shaking and you 'll find it shakes your diaphragm | K |
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| Hans Breitmann gif a barty vhere is dot barty now | L |
| On every shelf where wit is stored to smooth the careworn brow | L |
| A health to stout Hans Breitmann How long before we see | E |
| Another Hans as handsome as bright a man as he | E |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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