isa-normaladvance-1909-00061

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE61GRINSEditors Note : The Editor is not responsible for any ill results from the poetry below.In order to protect the poet from personal injury, however, we have withheld his name.THOU ART GONE.A Dirge.Thou art gone,No more shall I stand by thy open doorAnd peer oer the thousand faces or moreIn search of him. Those sweet, swreet days areoer.And the maiden bowed with the grief she bore.Thou art gone.Thou art gone,No more shall I stand by thy open doorAnd peer oer the thousand faces or moreIn search of her. Those sweet, sweet days areoer.And the sad swain bowed with the grief hebore.Thou art gone.Thou art gone,No more shall I stand by thy open doorAnd peer oer the thousand faces or moreScolding him and her spooning. That is oer.And the sad Prof, grinned wTith the grief hebore.Thou art gone.Thou art gone.No more shall we stand by the open doorAnd peer oer the thousand faces or moreOf lovesick swains and maidens. All is oer.Assembly Room, thy memory all adore.Since thou art gone.With thy high-cuffed pantaloons,And thy rag-time whistled tunes, -With thy loud socks, louder stillWith their stripes and flashy frill,With a meerschaum in thy face,Puffing with thy jaunty grace,From my heart I give thee joy,I was once a college boy.Prince thou art—a grown-up man,Politics, Republican.Let the million-dollared rideWith you riding at his side.He is easy, let him buyAll that comes before thy eyeWhich gives pleasure, inward joy,Thine for asking, college boy.SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.Sambo—Whar you get dat chicken?Mark Antony—Neber you mind bout datchicken. Taint youahs.Sambo—How you know taint?Mark Antony—Cause I found his in youahcoop.BLESSINGS ON THEE, COLLEGE MAN.Blessing on thee, College Man,With thy low-cut shoes of tan,HE SET A DATE.A merchant in a Wisconsin town who hada Swedish clerk sent him out to do some collecting. When he returned from an unsuccess-ful trip, he reported.Yim Yonson he say he vill pay ven he sellshim hogs. Yim Oleson, he vill pay ven he sellhim wheat, and Bill Pack say he vill pay inYanuary.Well, said the boss, thats the first timeBill ever set a date to pay. Did he really sayhe would pay in January?Veil, I tank so, said the clerk. He say itban a tarn cold day ven you get that money.I tank dat ban in Yanuary.—HarpersWeeklv.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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