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18 BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM O the birds that are glad to sing After the meal on the early worm! O I am happier now than a king! Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term! ENVOI Prince, or pauper, be what you may, Business is quiet, but stocks are firm ; Never believe in the “ bears” in May! Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term!
BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM TENNIS and cricket have come to stay, Five o'clock is the time to bring Tea and strawberry ice, and play Various dulcet jargoning; . Lazy paddle all day to swing, Lazy pipe to kill ennut’s germ, Lazy, lazy everything :— Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term ! O hooray! merry boys, hooray! Flannels are pleasures that have no sting. Everyone’s white and cool and gay ; Everyone looks as if a wing Might any moment sprout and spring, Turning him into an “alb’ inerm’ Angelum,” like Aladdin’s ring; Sing heigh-ho for the glad May …
…Ballade of Whist. Ballade of New Cniticism . Ballade of the Tyranny of a Commercial Empire Ballade of Ursa and Ursula Ballade of the May Term Ballade of Summer Joys. Ballade of the Mutability of Human Affairs Ballade of Guideless Climbing . Ballade of the Backs Ballade of Cambridge Papers Ballade of the New Humour Ballade of the One-Eyed Tout . Ballade of Lawn Tennis . Ballade of Serious Ballades Ballade of Old Admirals A Refrain of a Far Country A Ballade of Farewell vii PAGE 1X
A BALLADE OF FAREWELL Now the May term is gone at last. In merriment its days have sped ; Now our brief sojourning is past, And Cambridge days for us are dead. The springtime of our youth is fled, And Summer comes too fierce and dry. With pale cheek and averted head The time is come to say Good-bye. On Life’s rough road we travel fast ; Some to be great, and some to wed. We are small men, the world is vast ; With our desires God is not fed. Some wield gold swords, or steel, or lead ; Some lose good heart, lay weapons by. Each lies in his own se…
PRINCIPALLY REMIGIAL IT is the duty of a righteous editor, when May Term comes, to take his pen and spread it o’er the surface of his paper in inditing what we consider the best kind of writing, a leader to congratulate our crews or comment on their conduct should they lose, to mention how we won (or lost) the sports, and how we battled in the Racquet- Courts. Another column will refer to Fletcher, and technicalities of thwart and stretcher, and how the wind— I almost might have written this article within the groves of Ditton before the race w…