From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,

Wondering what the world can be!
Is it but a world of trouble -

Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble

Bound to break ere long?
Are its palaces and pleasures

Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures

Shadow of a shade?
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,

From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder - how we wonder! -

What on earth the world can be!
Ballad: Ah Me!

When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,
She wanders to and fro;

Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes,
And to all questions she replies,

With a sad heigho!
'Tis but a little word - "heigho!"

So soft, 'tis scarcely heard - "heigho!"
An idle breath -

Yet life and death
May hang upon a maid's "heigho!"

When maiden loves, she mopes apart,
As owl mopes on a tree;

Although she keenly feels the smart,
She cannot tell what ails her heart,

With its sad "Ah me!"
'Tis but a foolish sigh - "Ah me!"

Born but to droop and die - "Ah me!"
Yet all the sense

Of eloquence
Lies hidden in a maid's "Ah me!"

Ballad: The Duke Of Plaza-Toro
In enterprise of martial kind,

When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind

(He found it less exciting).
But when away his regiment ran,

His place was at the fore, O-
That celebrated,

Cultivated,
Underrated

Nobleman,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

In the first and foremostflight, ha, ha!
You always found that knight, ha, ha!

That celebrated,
Cultivated,

Underrated
Nobleman,

The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
When, to evade Destruction's hand,

To hide they all proceeded,
No soldier in that gallant band

Hid half as well as he did.
He lay concealed throughout the war,

And so preserved his gore, O!
That unaffected,

Undetected,
Well connected

Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

In every doughty deed, ha, ha!
He always took the lead, ha, ha!

That unaffected,
Undetected,

Well connected
Warrior,

The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
When told that they would all be shot

Unless they left the service,
That hero hesitated not,

So marvellous his nerve is.
He sent his resignation in,

The first of all his corps, O!
That very knowing,

Overflowing,
Easy-going

Paladin,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

To men of grosser clay, ha, ha!
He always showed the way, ha, ha!

That very knowing,
Overflowing,

Easy-going
Paladin,

The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
Ballad: The Aesthete

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man
of culture rare,

You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and
plant them everywhere.

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of
your complicated state of mind

(The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a
transcendental kind).

And every one will say,
As you walk your mystic way,

"If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for ME,
Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must

be!"
Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long

since passed away,
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good QUEEN ANNE was

Culture's palmiest day.
Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and declare

it's crude and mean,
And that Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the EMPRESS

JOSEPHINE.
And every one will say,

As you walk your mystic way,
"If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for ME,

Why, what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must
be!"

Then a sentimentalpassion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
languid spleen,

An attachment E LA Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-
French French bean.

Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in
the high aesthetic band,

If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your
mediaeval hand.

And every one will say,
As you walk your flowery way,

"If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not
suit ME,

Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man
must be!"

Ballad: Said I To Myself, Said I
When I went to the Bar as a very young man

(Said I to myself - said I),
I'll work on a new and original plan

(Said I to myself - said I),
I'll never assume that a rogue or a thief

Is a gentleman worthy implicit belief,
Because his attorney, has sent me a brief

(Said I to myself - said I!)
I'll never throw dust in a juryman's eyes

(Said I to myself - said I),
Or hoodwink a judge who is not over-wise

(Said I to myself - said I),
Or assume that the witnesses summoned in force

In Exchequer, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Divorce,
Have perjured themselves as a matter of course

(Said I to myself - said I!)
Ere I go into court I will read my brief through

(Said I to myself - said I),
And I'll never take work I'm unable to do

(Said I to myself - said I).
My learnedprofession I'll never disgrace

By taking a fee with a grin on my face,
When I haven't been there to attend to the case

(Said I to myself - said I!)
In other professions in which men engage

(Said I to myself - said I),
The Army, the Navy, the Church, and the Stage,

(Said I to myself - said I),
Professional licence, if carried too far,

Your chance of promotion will certainly mar -
And I fancy the rule might apply to the Bar

(Said I to myself - said I!)
Ballad: Sorry Her Lot

Sorry her lot who loves too well,
Heavy the heart that hopes but vainly,

Sad are the sighs that own the spell
Uttered by eyes that speak too plainly;

Heavy the sorrow that bows the head
When Love is alive and Hope is dead!

Sad is the hour when sets the Sun -
Dark is the night to Earth's poor daughters,

When to the ark the wearied one
Flies from the empty waste of waters!

Heavy the sorrow that bows the head
When Love is alive and Hope is dead!

Ballad: The Contemplative Sentry
When all night long a chap remains

On sentry-go, to chase monotony
He exercises of his brains,

That is, assuming that he's got any.
Though never nurtured in the lap

Of luxury, yet I admonish you,
I am an intellectual chap,

And think of things that would astonish you.
I often think it's comical

How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal,

That's born into the world alive,
Is either a little Liberal,

Or else a little Conservative!
Fal lal la!

When in that house M.P.'s divide,
If they've a brain and cerebellum, too,

They've got to leave that brain outside,
And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

But then the prospect of a lot
Of statesmen, all in close proximity,

A-thinking for themselves, is what

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• breath [breθ] n.呼吸；气息 (初中英语单词)
• keenly [´ki:nli] ad.敏锐地；强烈地 (初中英语单词)
• hidden [´hid(ə)n] hide 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
• enterprise [´entəpraiz] n.企业；雄心；胆识 (初中英语单词)
• regiment [´redʒimənt] n.团；一大群 (初中英语单词)
• flight [flait] n.逃走；飞行；班机 (初中英语单词)
• gallant [´gælənt, gə´lænt] a.英勇的；华丽的 (初中英语单词)
• anxious [´æŋkʃəs] a.担忧的；渴望的 (初中英语单词)
• culture [´kʌltʃə] n.修养；文化；饲养 (初中英语单词)
• complicated [´kɔmplikeitid] a.结构复杂的；难懂的 (初中英语单词)
• chatter [´tʃætə] vi.&n.饶舌；闲聊 (初中英语单词)
• convince [kən´vins] vt.使确信；使认识错误 (初中英语单词)
• passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
• vegetable [´vedʒtəbəl] a.&n.蔬菜(的)；植物 (初中英语单词)
• excite [ik´sait] vt.激动；引起，招惹 (初中英语单词)
• worthy [´wə:ði] a.有价值的；值得的 (初中英语单词)
• attorney [ə´tə:ni] n.代理人；律师 (初中英语单词)
• unable [ʌn´eibəl] a.不能的；无能为力的 (初中英语单词)
• profession [prə´feʃən] n.职业；声明；表白 (初中英语单词)
• licence [´laisəns] n.许可；执照 vt.批准 (初中英语单词)
• luxury [´lʌkʃəri] n.奢侈(品)；享受 (初中英语单词)
• astonish [ə´stɔniʃ] vt.使惊讶；使惊异 (初中英语单词)
• prospect [´prɔspekt, prəs´pekt] n.景色；境界 v.勘察 (初中英语单词)
• foremost [´fɔ:məust] a.最重要的；最先的 (高中英语单词)
• knight [nait] n.骑士；爵士 (高中英语单词)
• resignation [,rezig´neiʃən] n.辞职(书)；放弃；顺从 (高中英语单词)
• discourse [´diskɔ:s] n.论文；演说；说教 (高中英语单词)
• learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)
• promotion [prə´məuʃən] n.促进；提升；倡仪 (高中英语单词)
• intellectual [,inti´lektʃuəl] n.知识分子 (高中英语单词)
• martial [´mɑ:ʃəl] a.战争的；象军人的 (英语四级单词)
• eloquent [´eləkwənt] a.流利的；雄辩的 (英语四级单词)
• sentimental [,senti´mentl] a.感伤的；多愁善感的 (英语四级单词)
• attachment [ə´tætʃmənt] n.附着；附件；爱慕 (英语四级单词)
• bashful [´bæʃful] a.害羞的，忸怩的 (英语四级单词)
• jostle [´dʒɔsəl] v.&n.推，撞，挤(人) (英语四级单词)
• apostle [ə´pɔsəl] n.传道者 (英语四级单词)
• flowery [´flauəri] a.多花的 (英语四级单词)
• admonish [əd´mɔniʃ] vt.训戒；警告；劝告 (英语四级单词)
• mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)
• cultivated [´kʌltiveitid] a.在耕作的；有教养的 (英语六级单词)
• exchequer [iks´tʃekə] n.资金；(个人)财力 (英语六级单词)
• taking [´teikiŋ] a.迷人的 n.捕获物 (英语六级单词)