SERIO-COMIC VERSE. 631 



Late to bed and early rising, 



Ever luxury despising, 



Ever training, never " sizing," 



I have suffered with the rest. 

 Yellow cheek and forehead ruddy, 

 Memory confused and muddy, 

 These are the effects of study 



Of a subject so unblest. 



Look beyond, and see the wrangler, 

 Now become a College dangler, 

 Court some spiritual angler, 



Nibbling at his golden bait. 

 Hear him silence restive Eeason, 

 Her advice is out of season, 

 While her lord is plotting treason 



Gainst himself, and Church or State, 



See him next with place and pension, 

 And the very best intention 

 Of upholding that Convention 



Under which his fortunes rose. 

 Every scruple is rejected, 

 With his cherished schemes connected, 

 " Higher Powers may be neglected 



His result no further goes." 



Much he lauds the education 

 Which has raised to lofty station, 

 Men, whose powers of calculation 



Calculation's self defied. 

 How the learned fool would wonder 

 Were he now to see his blunder, 

 When he put his reason under 



The control of worldly Pride. 



Thus I muttered, very seedy, 

 Husky was my throat, and reedy ; 

 And no wonder, for indeed I 



Now had caught a dreadful cold. 



