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Graduates.

Air: "A Wandering Minstrel I" from "The Mikado")-

By "An Admirer."

Here come the Graduates,
Much used in lore and learning,
And midnight oil a-burning
And learned tete-a-tetes.

Of many varied kinds
You find them here assorted,
And they are all reported
To have gigantic minds.

Do you desire to charm your hearts?
We have a lot
Of maidens;
A pretty line in Bachelors of Arts
You'll quickly spot:
Ah! maidens!

They have been taught to speak
In Latin, French, and Greek,
And some are plump and sleek,
While some are not:
Ah! Maidens!

If you want the latest Scientific progress,
We've M.Sc's and B.Sc's in heaps;
If you're burdened with a nasty family ogress,
They've poisons that would give you all the creeps.
If any doubt exists about their fitness,
Only see them in their favourite disguise
As the eminent distinguished expert witness
At telling most distinguished expert lies.

And if you ask what the deuce are the rest,
We smile with fiendish glee,
And we thank our stars that our halls are blest
With shimmering hosts of the old earth's best,
We sing of the LL.B.
His Law,—His Jaw,
We sing of the LL.B.

He may look well in his hood and gown,
But wait till his face you twig
As he stands and with supercilious frown
Defends a Tort
In a high Law Court,
With his client well done brown, what ho!
In a very curly wig.

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So Nisi Prius, Sine Die,
And the old Estate in Fee,
Though they seem sucked dry
To the common eye,
They are not to the LL.B.

Here come the Graduates,
Much used in lore and learning,
And midnight oil a-burning
And learned tete-a-tetes.