With hands in pockets, down Cheapside I go,

And onward where one hears that dismal yell

Of “Echo, Standard, Special, or Pall Mall,”

Or where that dear old School forsaken lies

A weary waste expanding to the skies.

Where’er I roam whatever realms to see,

My heart untravell’d fondly turns to thee;

My thoughts to “Homer” turn, with ceaseless pain,

“Physics” and “Newth” I ne’er shall do again.

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