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Show THE GRADUATES. Fresh, blushing (lower of modern learning, They bowed on the bemiislined stage. And aired their various views conceding The woman of the glaoial age; The rise and fall ef ancient Korue; or The lata CarU'o, the wUl he bad; The personality of Homer, Whether he wrote the Iliad, Or ome inglorious nameless bard did; Rome Hiked 1( Bellamy's grand scheme , Phould he accepted or discarded ; One talked of bypnottstic drearaa; One analyzed the solar spectrum, A pother placed the rivor Styx ; .Another allowed the sad effect rum Can work in local politics. I mused, and thought now should I marry That prirl ho wrote an old Norse fable Would she turn out a household fairy And act iin appetizing table? Or would she be a slave to books, . , With learning plenty for a wliard, A nd yet the frightfuleat of cooks, Incompetent to broil a gijMordf ' , Would sbe go round In shabby sklrtaf (,'oul'i she do up my linen shirts As daintily as mother does 'eoi, Or would she spot and crease etch bosom? These questions made my senses whirl; I vsrealy listened to the theses; Well, after all I d take tbe girl And bravely face the risk of creases. Buffalo Courier. |