Identifier: phoenix1895cumb (find matches)
Title: The Phoenix
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Cumberland Univ.
Subjects: Cumberland University (Lebanon, Tenn.) Yearbooks
Publisher: Cumberland University
Contributing Library: Cumberland University, Vise Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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DW@©tt M© Riding out old West Main Street, Behind an old gray mare;The cadence of her clattring feetRinging on the fresh, crisp air: The gentle buzz of toiling bees,The song of birds in maple trees,And smiling faces youre wont to meet-Driving out old West Main Street. Further on the bridge you pass,Beneath, the babbling brook;Beyond, the fields of waving grassWhence conies the caw of rook. The browsing herd on flowered mead,The sandy paths that winding leadTo where the careless smaller fryBait their hooks for goggle-eye. A nd further on the old toll gate, Its keeper, old and spry—Another bridge, the second, the great,Whereunder the creek doth lie And sleep to wake with joyful strain,To flow from pool to pool again.Ah! niemries tome forever sweet—Driving out old West Main Street.
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To pass or not to pass—that is the question; Whether tis better with the niind to study The books and problems of unfeeling teachers. Or to hit the ceiling- with a dreadful thud. And by opposing- smash through? To miss—to bust No more; and by a bust to say we end The headache, and a million dread nightmares School boys are heir to; tis a consummation Profanely to be wished: To fail—to bust To bust —perhaps wide open. A3, theres the rub; For in that bust of ours what ghosts may come, When we have put aside these student garbs, To haunt our lives; theres the respect That plays the dickens in the school-boys life: For who would bear the knocks and bumps of school, The professors frowns, the best mans ostentations. The impudence of freshmen, and the quizzes That wicked juniors ask a senior grave. When he himself might his departure take Without his sh eepskin? Whod these troubles bear But that the dread of something next school year. The often traversed pathway oer whose stones So

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