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A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE
“You are old, my dear deacon,” the schoolma'am remarked,
“And studies with youth pass away;
Yet you 're quite in advance of the books, I am sure,—
Now tell me the reason, I pray.”
“And studies with youth pass away;
Yet you 're quite in advance of the books, I am sure,—
Now tell me the reason, I pray.”
“In the days of my youth,” the good deacon replied,
“I was fleetest of foot in my set;
And I ran on ahead of my studies so fast
That they 've never caught up with me yet.”
“I was fleetest of foot in my set;
And I ran on ahead of my studies so fast
That they 've never caught up with me yet.”
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