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"Sic transit gloria mundi,"
"How doth the busy bee,"
"Dum vivimus vivamus,"
I stay mine enemy!
Oh "veni, vidi, vici!"
Oh caput cap-a-pie!
And oh "memento mori"
When I am far from thee!
Hurrah for Peter Parley!
Hurrah for Daniel Boone!
Three cheers, sir, for the gentleman
Who first observed the moon!
Peter, put up the sunshine
Patti, arrange the stars
Tell Luna, tea is waiting
And call your brother Mars!
Put down the apple, Adam
And come away with me
So shalt thou have a pippin
From off my father's tree!
I climb the "Hill of Science,"
I "view the landscape o'er;"
Such transcendental prospect,
I ne'er beheld before!
Unto the Legislature
My country bids me go
I'll take my india rubbers
In case the wind should blow!
During my education
It was announced to me
That gravitation, stumbling
Fell from an apple tree!
The earth upon an axis
Was once supposed to turn
By way of a gymnastic
In honor of the sun!
It was the brave Columbus
A sailing o'er the tide
Who notified the nations
Of where I would reside!
Mortality is fatal
Gentility is fine
Rascality, heroic
Insolvency, sublime!
Our Fathers being weary
Laid down on Bunker Hill
And tho' full many a morning
Yet they are sleeping still
The trumpet, sir, shall wake them
In dreams I see them rise
Each with a solemn musket
A marching to the skies!
A coward will remain, Sir
Until the fight is done
But an immortal hero
Will take his hat, and run!
Good bye, Sir, I am going
My country calleth me
Allow me, Sir, at parting
To wipe my weeping e'e.
In token of our friendship
Accept this "Bonnie Doon,"
And when the hand that plucked it
Hath pa**ed beyond the moon
The memory of my ashes
Will consolation be
Then, farewell, Tuscarora
And farewell, Sir, to thee!