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Ad Chloen, M.A., Fresh From Her Cambridge Examination

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Lady, very fair are you,     And your eyes are very blue,         And your hose;     And your brow is like the snow,     And the various things you know,         Goodness knows.     And the rose-flush on your cheek,     And your Algebra and Greek         Perfect are;     And that loving lustrous eye     Recognizes in the sky         Every star.     You have pouting piquant lips,     You can doubtless an eclipse         Calculate;     But for your cerulean hue,     I had certainly from you         Met my fate.     If by some arrangement dual     I were Adams mixed with Whewell,         Then some day     I, as wooer, perhaps might come     To so sweet an Artium         Magistra.

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