Show 4 Literary Supplement Student Life i ( ll ! :i Reminder to the Old Maids and Advice to the Young Ones If you go to (lances monition on a fashion that is golden Where the ladies wear their dresses in a way you can’t explain You can bet most any money that you’ll spot the very funny Cultivated efflorescence growing near the wall with pain Ballad of Vegetables “Sah ein Knab’ ein Roslein stehn Roslein auf der Ileiden War so jung undmorgenschon Lief er sehnell er nalizu selin Sail’s mit vielen Freuden Roslein Roslein Roslein rot Now the tlower that I mention may have eyes of bluest gentian Roslein auf der Ileiden” And her hair he like the sunshine on the rippling waves of wheat “Fir::t verse only two more And her face supply a thesis for a poet’s pastoral pieces gad! how that is tiresome I say And the men may w’sh to lay t lie i r hearts and fortunes at her Jeff only two more weeks until feet Christmas and then it will be adieu (gliick) Auf’ for one brief Hut in spite of all the sheep’s eye' men may make or any deep space of heavenly blirs and if sighs Molly’s in town and that husky My lady shuns the poems and the posies of the herds Jones isn’t — why I’ll just monoFor the cultivated pages in the books of ancient sages polize every night I will — beFor the music of Hecthoven or the singing of the bird cause — because —oh I can’t tell if And Bacchus with his leopards rouse the other nymphs and you a thing about her Jeff but shepherds you know she’s not one of those And if they make the house or mansion roof or dancing hall to masculine suffragette damsels ring :he’s a real feminine girl with ith their light and larky revels on the stairs or on the levels pretty ways and a smile you can’t We’l I fancy that thh maiden will avoid that kind of thing resist” A potato went on a mash And sought an onion bed “That’s pie for me” observed the squash And all the beets turned red “Go ’way” the onion weeping cried “Your love I cannot be The pumpkin be your lawful bride — You cantaloupe with me” Hut onward s' ill the tuber came And lay down at her feet “You cauliflower by any name And it will smell as wheat And I too am an early rose And you I’ve come to see So don’t turnip your lovely nose But spinachat with me” “I do not carrot all to wed So go rir if you please” The modest onion meekly said “That so?” Jeff had his head “And lettuce pray have peas A case I once remember in a cold and bleak December never buried in a cliem book besides he Go thing that you have A maiden like a wall tlower sat and smiled upon t he room seen And the fellows vainly sought her to sit out a dance to court her had heard of Mollv’s adorable Myse’f or smelled my sigh innumerable times qualities Hut she chilled them with a look as cold as a December moon maiden I have been “Hut see here” he said rousing Tco long a For favors in your rye” o the empty weeks that passed her left her cold as alabaster himself “you’ll find that your Till one day while riding in tile park where laurel thicket" are immortal im-the tuber j “Ah spare a cuss” Molly in’t the most musician With a certain sly ignition she nmt a tall prayed portant thing to dwell upon when Who in fact was an Apollo and had loved her from afar we’ve a bunch of exams staring “My eheiryshed wribe you’ll be us in the face” Now although bis repul at’on gave some cause for comet sat ion “I guess you’re right old boy You are the only weeping maid Still I think that had she waited he'd have won her at his e:oc That’s currant now with me” it can’t be Molly when Deutsrh Hut win n he declared his title in alatm at its recital exams come first hour and your And as the wily tuber rpoke lie forsook his further wooing fir the butterflies and bees He caught her by surprise degree of glory depends on how the lied o’et maiden this grasses well ” Like the summer wind that passes And giving her an artichoke you can say ‘Roslein!’ For she heard the rushing foots ep nice across the scented thyme “Knabe spraeh: Ish breche-ic- h Decoured her with his eyes — Tit-Bi- t And in sudden panic ardor she implored the goods to guard her Roslein and — Say Jeff I’ve For the wotds he vowed were nonsense and the kiss she called got to write to Molly and let her “I know what I’ll do Jeff I’ll a crime know I’m coming and that Jones just come right out and say it like And at once her lithe form faltered and grew rigid and she altered can take a rest” He picked up his pen and de- this— I’ll be home Sunday night To a bush of gleaming laurel in its dark perennial green Molly and I expect to drop in wrote: and liberately thrill rushes the where quiver river the beside rows she And and see you immediately upon “Dear Molly: been have that of the might things With an everlasting murmur — “It’s an awful bore this Ger- arriving I ‘Sab ein Knab’e ein Roslein Should we want to pin a moral to this legend of the laurel man and tomorrow is exam stehn For the use of any debutante who’s passed sweet seventeen have been studying for hours and Rcslein auf — ’ It is Don’t be too unbending or you’ll run the risk of ending I am going to write to you while “Somehow I can’t get this Not a laurel but a wall flower— which b not an evergreen my mind rests It’s only two If I head weeks until Christmas Molly through my had anything to do with the curTHE CHOIR MAYDE AND THE And to the self sam plas goes lie and- -” riculum I would take steps to SENIOR Hully balloo balario “Say Jeff how would you ask substitute a course in astronomy — Their bukei piled by thcr syde her?” to-nig- ht Hully balloo balario They tak and tak til evvn tyd Hully balloo balario On Sunda goon that for a ryde Hully balloo balario Hully balloo balario And on his ehinne the down He asked hir for to be hys bryde Hully balloo balario nperes We wish hem joi thru all the yercs llully balloo balario Hully balloo balario The rosettes blum upon hir eres Thys daynte par of A C dcrcs Hully balloo balario Hully balloo balario She gocth oft to the librare BRAITHWAITE Hully balloo balario (A Ballad) A lad syts doon in the senyor ro I Fully halloo balario A Mayde syts up by the big basso for German” “Ah go on” snapped Jeff He rested his head on his hand iwthout looking up “If you had ( H Ieh licbe as much to do as I have you’d Auf” lay open but his get biry” were closed “Right you are again I’ll eyes “Rosleiin auf der Ileiden — have to think about this proposiHe was nodding tion anyway “Dear Molly ‘Roslein auf der Ilicrden Ieh liebc dich War so jung und morgensehon’ dich-“Gluc- k “Say Jeff “Ich licbe dich Roslein auf der Ileiden Two more weeks to Xmas” “Br-r-rlSound asleep and ” ’ oh what a heavenly smile! |