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Because, you say, you wish to pass through Boards some day in June To walk in halls of learning, of science, or of art.
And there isn’t any password of which you know the tune
Txcept those learned in subjects that I’m taking so to heart.
Future, More or Less Vivid
Just have it your own way you must, since you aremuii seventeen And I am only I— that’s one. d'he odds are yours, you see.
So I must stay to serve you in your competition keen
d ill in June you will be leaving, oh, my darling I'wenty-I'hree.
But you’ll return, my darling, from the college or the home. And to name tapes and umbrellas indifferent we shall be.
And we’ll talk of sealing wax and kings and let our fancies roam— Straight back to good old times we had in Nineteen Twenty-Three!
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