BALLADE OF CAMBRIDGE PAPERS!
THE Cantab “to the interest
‘Of undergraduates ” is wed,
Gimbles and gyres as one possessed
On how the ’Varsity is bled.
It paints with unassuming red
The hebdomary interview
With ladies who on legs and head
Dance until everything is blue!
The Granta with a throbbing breast
Watches, with eager passion fed,
The track, the field, the statesman’s nest,”
The wicket and the river bed.
The evildoer comes to dread
Its scathing scorn, its charges true.
It makes the heart as dull as lead
Dance until everything is blue.
The reverend Review (suppressed
The rising laugh, the smile ill-bred)
Bakes for the Fellows that infest
This University, a bread
1 Written for the Camébridge Magazine.
2 The Union!!!
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