The Bab Ballads With which are included Songs of a Savoyard: By W. S. Gilbert: With 350 illustrations by the author |
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Comes a train of little ladies
From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,
Wondering what the world can be.
From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,
Wondering what the world can be.
Is it but a world of trouble—
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow of a shade?
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow of a shade?
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,
From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder—how we wonder!—
What on earth the world can be!
From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder—how we wonder!—
What on earth the world can be!
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