Short and fleeting is our life,—
Swift away ’tis wearing;
Swiftly, too, will death be here,
Cruel, us away to tear,
Naught that liveth sparing.
Long live Academia,—
And our tutors clever;
All our comrades long live they,
And our female comrades gay,
May they bloom forever.
Long live every maiden true,
Who has worth and beauty;
And may every matron who
Kind and good is, flourish, too,—
Each who does her duty.
Long may also live our state,
And the king who guides us;
Long may live our town, and fate
Prosper each Mecænas great,
Who good things provides us.
Perish melancholy woe,
Perish who derides us;
Perish fiend, and perish so
Every antiburschian foe
Who for laughing chides us.
GERMAN STUDENTS.
Mr. Beal, finding the Class interested, continued the subject by some account of one of the most popular writers of German songs.