Modesty, if not misgiving, makes it hard for me to say,
But I'm much inclined to fancy that it's just the other way.
Anyhow, from this experience I have learned a lot of things
Hidden from the ken of scholars or Prime Ministers or Kings,
Though revealed to youthful schoolboys lately freed from leading-strings.
On the relative importance of the classics, "maths," and "stinks";
On the charm of pink-hued ices, on the choice of gaseous drinks;
On the special sort of sermon which induces forty winks;
On the various ways of pulling pompous seniors by the leg;
On effective ways of bringing uppish juniors down a peg;