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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review 1912

Last Lines Discovered in the Note Book of One Found Dead in the Victoria College Library

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Last Lines Discovered in the Note Book of One Found Dead in the Victoria College Library.

Ah, Woe is me! unutterable Woe!
I have attended Lectures, and I know
That vile, relentless torment of the damned—
Victoria College! where the Students go.

Garrow I knew, and Law of divers sorts
I studied once, and I have played at Orts
And Crosses, and by many subtle shifts
Have whiled way the lagging hour of Torts.

Zedlitz was there, inspiring, god-like, grand!
Zedlitz I hated—he deceived me, and
The time will come when all men realize
That Von is very hard to understand;

Mackenzie too, Gigantic Pachyderm!
With whom men sigh and sleep, and waking squirm:
I learned the loves of Shelley and Carlyle,
And nothing more, in over half a term;

And other ills it boots not to rehearse,
All just incentives of a righteous curse:
Hunter is bad, and Picken Very Bad
But parsons! parsons infinitely worse!

Peace! Peace! I die. Not Jove could now restore
This wasted frame to vigour as of yore.
The final malediction of my soul
Descends on War—. . . . . .

(Deceased wrote nothing more.—Ed. Spike.)