And help to expound him to lit’rature clubs;
But now—oh, most direful and dreadful disaster!—
Those girls have in chocolate spent all their “subs.”
Just for some mouthfuls of chocolate only,
Quit they the Browning Society’s fold;
Leaving their male fellow-worshippers lonely,
Puzzling out lines of mysterious mould.
Oh! say what is sweetstuff to sentences mystic,
That Girton girls should thus forsake the true “cult”?
Oh, when they might pore o’er B.’s lines aphoristic,