Bill East wrote:
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> The Thaliad.
>
> Sweet THALIA, Muse of the Comedic strain,
> I shall not gaze upon thy face again.
> FERZOCO (cruel only to be kind)
> Has bid us leave our levity behind
> And write such messages as he would deem
> More proper for the groves of Academe.
> On CROCKERS, on POPE WENDY, and on me
> Falls hard the weight of George's stern decree.
> The MASTER, too, of them that LEVITATE
> Has cause to rue the enmity of fate.
> More soberly must KWILDGEN, fancy's child
> Warble henceforth her native wood-notes wild.
> Far from our list we drive light-hearted folly,
> And welcome thee, divinest MELANCHOLY.
> No more shall Limericks our screens deface;
> DUNS SCOTUS now shall occupy their place.
> Seek ye no more for NURSIA the Bear;
> SAINT BONAVENTURE only shall be there.
> Saint Patrick's elephants are banished hence
> By scholarship, sobriety, and sense.
> But, lest Ferzoco's doom should strike too hard
> He leaves us in the case of ABELARD;
> He does not grudge us our beguiling frolics;
> He bids us only cut away the ********.
>
> The Supple Doctor.
>
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Hibernicae Muase, paulo maiora canamus:
non omnes arbusta iuvant Abelardique fata.
Si canimus nugas, nugae et sint Supplice dignae.
Luciana
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