Pretty maids a-laughing—
Here's to rosy lips,
Port and sherry quaffing
While the pottle drips.
Quaffing port and sherry,
Jolly roaring blades,
Making gay and merry
With the giddy maids.
Red blood and revel,
Murder, love, and fraud,—
Dancing to the devil,
Laughing to the Lord.
Bright gold and yellow,
Meek maids and bold,
Old wine and mellow—
Wine and maids and gold.
Light life and long life,
Brisk life and brave;
Strong life and wrong life,
Great to the grave.
Sing a song of old days,
Sing them back again;
Kill the canny, cold days,
Let us live like men.
Harvard Advocate.
~A Reward of Merit.~
The father asked: "How have you done
In mastering ancient lore?"
"I did so well," replied the son,
"They gave me an encore;
The Faculty like me and hold me so dear,
They make me repeat my Freshman year."
Trinity Tablet.