The Ingoldsby Lyrics By Thomas Ingoldsby [i.e. R. H. Barham] |
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On the Windows of King's College Remaining Boarded.
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On the Windows of King's College Remaining Boarded.
LOQUITUR DISCIPULUS ESURIENS.
Professors, in your plan there seems
A something not quite right,
'Tis queer to cherish learning's beams
By shutting out the light.
A something not quite right,
'Tis queer to cherish learning's beams
By shutting out the light.
While thus we see your windows block'd,
If nobody complains;
Yet everybody must be shock'd
To see you don't take pains.
If nobody complains;
Yet everybody must be shock'd
To see you don't take pains.
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And tell me why should bodily
Succumb to mental meat?
Or why should ητα, βητα, πι,
Be all the pie we eat?
Succumb to mental meat?
Or why should ητα, βητα, πι,
Be all the pie we eat?
No Helluo librorum I—
No literary glutton—
Would veal with Virgil like to try,
With metaphysics, mutton.
No literary glutton—
Would veal with Virgil like to try,
With metaphysics, mutton.
Leave us no longer in the lurch,
With Romans, Greeks, and Hindoos;
But give us beef as well as birch,
And board us—not your windows.
With Romans, Greeks, and Hindoos;
But give us beef as well as birch,
And board us—not your windows.
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