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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1931. Volume 2. Number 3.

"We are Eleven" or "Gone Before"

"We are Eleven" or "Gone Before"

I met a woman student selling badges recently.
Her mien was tranquil and detached, her mind seemed all at sea.
She had a lost expression, but an impish roguish frown.
"With or without a pin?" she pressed. "The price is half-a-crown."

"Your Committee—where are they?" I asked. "How many may you be?"
"The Exec.? Eleven in all," she said, and wondering looked at me.
"But where are they, I pray you tell." She answered. "Eleven are we—
And three of us resigned last term and one last February."

We were forced to take a plebiscite, and came off second best.
So two disgruntled comrades resigned and left the nest.
"You say that three resigned last term and one last February—
Yet still you are eleven. Pray tell how this may be!"

And then this strange young maiden said, "Eleven people we,
And now Another has resigned—that's five since February.
But they're not Lost—just Gone Before." Her eyes were opened wide,
"And after the next election we'll again be side by side."

"And how many will be Exec. be then—when you have learned your fate?"
"Alas!" the maiden made reply. "Alas, then they'll be eight."

Emily.