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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 PoetA
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The Dutch have taken Holland so the schoolboys used to sayB
The Dutch have taken Harvard no doubt of that to dayB
For the Wendells were low Dutchmen and all their vrows were VansC
And the Breitmanns are high Dutchmen and here is honest HansD
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Mynheers you both are welcome Fair cousin Wendell PE
Our ancestors were dwellers beside the Zuyder ZeeE
Both Grotius and Erasmus were countrymen of weE
And Vondel was our namesake though he spelt it with a VE
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It is well old Evert Jansen sought a dwelling over seaE
On the margin of the Hudson where he sampled you and meE
Through our grandsires and great grandsires for you would n't quite agreeE
With the steady going burghers along the Zuyder ZeeE
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Like our Motley's John of Barnveld you have always been inclinedF
To speak well somewhat frankly to let us know your mindF
And the Mynheers would have told you to be cautious what you saidG
Or else that silver tongue of yours might cost your precious headG
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But we're very glad you've kept it it was always Freedom's ownH
And whenever Reason chose it she found a royal throneH
You have whacked us with your sceptre our backs were little harmedI
And while we rubbed our bruises we owned we had been charmedI
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And you our quasi Dutchman what welcome should be yoursJ
For all the wise prescriptions that work your laughter curesJ
Shake before taking not a bit the bottle cure's a shamK
Take before shaking and you 'll find it shakes your diaphragmK
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Hans Breitmann gif a barty vhere is dot barty nowL
On every shelf where wit is stored to smooth the careworn browL
A health to stout Hans Breitmann How long before we seeE
Another Hans as handsome as bright a man as heE

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