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I	-
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When one is young and eager	B
A bejant and a boy	C
Though his moustache be meagre	B
That cannot mar his joy	C
When at the Competition	D
He takes a fair position	D
And feels he has a mission	D
A talent to employ	C
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With pride he goes each morning	E
Clad in a scarlet gown	F
A cap his head adorning	E
Both bought of Mr Brown	F
He hears the harsh bell jangle	G
And enters the quadrangle	G
The classic tongues to mangle	G
And make the ancients frown	F
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He goes not forth at even	H
He burns the midnight oil	G
He feels that all his heaven	D
Depends on ceaseless toil	G
Across his exercises	I
A dream of many prizes	I
Before his spirit rises	I
And makes his raw blood boil	G
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Though he be green as grass is	J
And fresh as new mown hay	K
Before the first year passes	I
His verdure fades away	K
His hopes now faintly glimmer	B
Grow dim and ever dimmer	B
And with a parting shimmer	B
Melt into 'common day '	-
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He cares no more for Liddell	G
Or Scott and Smith and White	L
And Lewis Short and Riddle	G
Are 'emptied of delight '	-
Todhunter and Colenso	I
Alas that friendships end so	I
He curses in extenso	I
Through morning noon and night	L
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No more with patient labour	B
The midnight oil he burns	I
But unto some near neighbour	B
His fair young face he turns	I
To share the harmless tattle	G
Which bejants love to prattle	G
As wise as infant's rattle	G
Or talk of coots and herns	I
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At midnight round the city	M
He carols wild and free	M
Some sweet unmeaning ditty	M
In many a changing key	M
And each succeeding verse is	I
Commingled with the curses	I
Of those whose sleep disperses	I
Like sal volatile	G
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He shaves and takes his toddy	M
Like any fourth year man	N
And clothes his growing body	M
After another plan	N
Than that which once delighted	M
When in the days benighted	M
Like some wild thing excited	M
About the fields he ran	N
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A sweet life and an idle	G
He lives from year to year	B
Unknowing bit or bridle	G
There are no proctors here	B
Free as the flying swallow	I
Which Ida's Prince would follow	I
If but his bones were hollow	I
Until the end draws near	B
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Then comes a Dies Irae	B
When full of misery	B
And torments worse than fiery	B
He crams for his degree	B
And hitherto unvexed books	I
Dry lectures abstracts text books	I
Perplexing and perplexed books	I
Make life seem vanity	B
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Before admiring sister	B
And mother see he stands	I
Made Artium Magister	B
With laying on of hands	I
He gives his books to others	I
Perchance his younger brothers	I
And free from all such bothers	I
Goes out into all lands	I

Robert Fuller Murray

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