Then to think of the feelings of those,

Who cannot these subjects acquire,

Is enough to give one the direst of woes

(Not to mention the wrath of your sire).

O, but for one short look

At the Euclid or Paley paper,

For one short glance, I soon would dance,

And cut about and caper.

A little peeping would ease my heart,

But from those papers hated,