"About those conditions?" Well, now you go And do as I tell you, and then you'll know. Once a year, on Commencement day, If you'll only take the pains to stay, As much as to say that he allows. The Vice-Gub. next is called by name; He bows like t' other, which means the same. As much as to say that they allow. And a lot of parchments about the chair And then the lawyers hold it clear That the chair is safe for another year. God bless you, Gentlemen! Learn to give To bother the colleges, when you die, With codicil this, and codicil that, That Knowledge may starve while Law grows fat; For there never was pitcher that would n't spill, And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will! DE SAUTY. AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE. Professor. Blue-Nose. PROFESSOR. TELL me, O Provincial! speak, Ceruleo-Nasal! Lives there one De Sauty extant now among you, Whispering Boanerges, son of silent thunder, Holding talk with nations? Is there a De Sauty ambulant on Tellus, Breathes there such a being, O Ceruleo-Nasal? Such as Livy told about the wolf that wet-nursed Romulus and Remus? Was he born of woman, this alleged De Sauty? Like the acarus bred in Crosse's flint-solution ? BLUE-NOSE. Many things thou askest, jackknife-bearing stranger, Much-conjecturing mortal, pork-and-treacle-waster! Pretermit thy whittling, wheel thine ear-flap toward me, Thou shalt hear them answered. When the charge galvanic tingled through the cable, As the small opossum held in pouch maternal Sucking in the current. When the current strengthened, bloomed the pale-faced Took no drink nor victual, yet grew fat and rosy, And from time to time, in sharp articulation, Said, "All right! DE SAUTY." From the lonely station passed the utterance, spreading Through the pines and hemlocks to the groves of steeples, Till the land was filled with loud reverberations Of "All right! DE SAUTY." When the current slackened, drooped the mystic stran ger, Faded, faded, faded, as the stream grew weaker, Drops of deliquescence glistened on his forehead, Nothing but a cloud of elements organic, C. O. H. N. Ferrum, Chlor. Flu. Sil. Potassa, Such as man is made of. Born of stream galvanic, with it he had perished! |