, THE CADET. 4 9 _
T;  And those poems she inspired, »
1-  ` Have brought all else but bliss, p
, ij To the poor down-trodden schoolboy T .
  From that day unto this.
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  Used to call upon the Mouse,
  When writing up some text·books
  For modern schools to use.
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  To perpetrate that verse,
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  · Gould hardly have been worse,
  So I followed the example
  That those old fellows set,
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Q?  That the Nluse was living yet.
  And instead of getting down to work
  · And writing up some rhyme, »
  I’ve waited for the Nluse to come {
Lg  And wasted all my time. . ,.
  It’s been about two thousand years
  Since the Nluses used to shine,
  And filled men’s heads with all the stuff
‘   That poets think so fine.
  But now it has occurred to me
 Z That if she be not dead, ‘
  She has become quite old and deal`, A -
 a= Or else her spirit’s lled.
  She might not know our language,
V  For l’ve called and called again,
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{  And my labor’s been in vain.