The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 by Various
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page 38 of 51 (74%)
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Pledg'd to the next new comer--
He revell'd in the warmer breath And richer bowers of SUMMER. Then sportive AUTUMN claim'd by rights An Archer for her lover, And even in WINTER'S dark, cold nights A charm he could discover. Her routs and balls, and fireside joy, For this time were his reasons-- In short, Young Love's a gallant boy, That likes all times and seasons. _New Monthly Magazine._ * * * * * SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. College! how different from school! Never believe a great, broad-faced, beetle-browed Spoon, when he tells you, with a sigh that would upset a schooner, that the happiest days of a man's life are those he spends at school. Does he forget the small bed-room occupied by eighteen boys, the pump you had to run to on Sunday mornings, when decency and the usher commanded you to wash? Is he oblivious of the blue chalk and water they flooded your bowels with at breakfast, and called it milk? Has he lost the remembrance of the Yorkshire pudding, vulgarly called choke-dog, of |
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