To The Reader Of -university Notes- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDE FGFHIJIJ KLKLBKBK AMAMCNCN KBKBBOBO PBPBIAIA NEEQRSRS TKKTASAS BUUBKSKS| Ah yes we know what you're saying | A |
| As your eye glances over these Notes | B |
| 'What asses are these that are braying | A |
| With flat and unmusical throats | B |
| Who writes such unspeakable patter | C |
| Is it lunatics idiots or who ' | D |
| And you think there is 'something the matter ' | D |
| Well we think so too | E |
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| We have sat full of sickness and sorrow | F |
| As the hours dragged heavily on | G |
| Till the midnight has merged into morrow | F |
| And the darkness is going or gone | H |
| We are Editors Give us the credit | I |
| Of meaning to do what we could | J |
| But since there is nothing to edit | I |
| It isn't much good | J |
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| Once we shared the delightful delusion | K |
| That to edit was racy and rare | L |
| But we suffered a sad disillusion | K |
| And we found that our castles were air | L |
| We had decked them with carvings and gildings | B |
| We had filled them with laughter and fun | K |
| But all of a sudden the buildings | B |
| Came down with a run | K |
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| Not a trace was there left of the carving | A |
| And the gilding had vanished from sight | M |
| But the 'column' for matter was starving | A |
| And we had not to edit but write | M |
| So we set to and wrote Can you wonder | C |
| If the writing was feeble or dead | N |
| We had started as editors Thunder | C |
| We were authors instead | N |
| - | |
| We'd mistaken our calling election | K |
| Vocation department and use | B |
| We had thought that our task was selection | K |
| And we found that we had to produce | B |
| So we sigh for release from our labours | B |
| We pray for a happy despatch | O |
| We will take our last leave of our neighbours | B |
| And then Colney Hatch | O |
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| We are singing this dolorous ditty | P |
| As we part at the foot of the stairs | B |
| We cannot but think it's a pity | P |
| But what matter there's nobody cares | B |
| Our candle burns low in its socket | I |
| There is nothing left but the wick | A |
| And these Notes that went up like a rocket | I |
| Come down like the stick | A |
| - | |
| Ever to be the best To lead | N |
| In whatsoever things are true | E |
| Not stand among the halting crew | E |
| The faint of heart the feeble kneed | Q |
| Who tarry for a certain sign | R |
| To make them follow with the rest | S |
| Oh let not their reproach be thine | R |
| But ever be the best | S |
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| For want of this aspiring soul | T |
| Great deeds on earth remain undone | K |
| But sharpened by the sight of one | K |
| Many shall press toward the goal | T |
| Thou running foremost of the throng | A |
| The fire of striving in thy breast | S |
| Shalt win although the race be long | A |
| And ever be the best | S |
| - | |
| And wilt thou question of the prize | B |
| 'Tis not of silver or of gold | U |
| Nor in applauses manifold | U |
| But hidden in the heart it lies | B |
| To know that but for thee not one | K |
| Had run the race or sought the quest | S |
| To know that thou hast ever done | K |
| And ever been the best | S |
Robert Fuller Murray
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