When I was but a Freshman — and that was long ago —
I saw her first, but did not learn her name.
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The 'Publican Party — the Democratic,
An' the daily papers, too,
Have asked in a manneh most emphatic
What the cullud race will do.
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Part First
You'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff,
The name of that highly deluded old fluff
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Back in the golden days of youth,
On a farm in I-o-way;
Happiest days of all were they,—
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Wherever British drumbeats sound,
Unending 'round the world;
Wherever in some land new-found,
Our starry flag's unfurled;
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A lovelorn microbe met by chance
At a swagger bacteroidal dance
A proud bacillian belle, and she
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We figured once on fans and screens —
We figure now on the Philippines.
It's not the style to pat my head;
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Within a house of public entertainment
There sat an ebon slave close at the foot
Of a heavy chair topping a broad dais.
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I
The folks in Section A
Who watch a problem play
Of the kind C. F. imports for Ethel Barrymore
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