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Show The Venerable Graduate. He enters hi eolleire at Iweuty.und Is through at twenty-four; The law sehool claims tho graduate, he studies three years more. His shingle flultera to the breeze at twenty-Mven. twenty-Mven. and Mill He fliilits for clients three years more his father fath-er foots the bill. At thirtv-foiir his debts aro paid, that Is, If lie's alive; And the eolleire man begins to live at the ago of thirty-live; And bis dome of thought protrudes through bis hair, and his beard is etrcukeri with irray. And the maid he loved In youth hits become a uiuiron Willi children at play. Byron lunl written fome very (mod verse, and died, mid licen raiiken with the ureat. At about the axe you begin to live you irre- Miiulc imiduate; And Artenum Wurd had tickled tho world until ii held lui breath. Until t lie voice of its lauffliter was bushed in the awful stillness of death! Aod Keats had made himself classic, and died, uud moldered, and crumbled away. And S links pcure had writ certain comedy jiliys that won't bo foritot In u day. And Slielloy had made himself fumous with sonif Immortal at thirty he died Alcxauder had fouirht aud conquered the world, aud died aud w as deified. But you have studied quadratics, and roots, and Sanscrit, and Latin, aud Greek. And various kiiifrues of the ancient world that arc far too dead to speak; But you have lost the irlnw of the fray and Vhe (ilorious Joy of the strife, Nui tasted tho sweet of the meat of the world, nor the juice of the vintage of life. S. W. Fass. |