BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM
TENNIS and cricket have come to stay,
Five o'clock is the time to bring
Tea and strawberry ice, and play
Various dulcet jargoning; .
Lazy paddle all day to swing,
Lazy pipe to kill ennut’s germ,
Lazy, lazy everything :—
Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term !
O hooray! merry boys, hooray!
Flannels are pleasures that have no sting.
Everyone’s white and cool and gay ;
Everyone looks as if a wing
Might any moment sprout and spring,
Turning him into an “alb’ inerm’
Angelum,” like Aladdin’s ring;
Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term!
O the trees are out to-day!
O the buds are blossoming!
O the snow and the wind are away!
O the sun of the late sweet spring !
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