Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-07

rTis twenty years, and something more
Since, all athirst for useful knowledge,
I took some draughts of classic lore
Drawn, very mild, at ------rd College;
Yet remember all that one
Could wish to hold in recollection;
The boys, the joys, the noise, the fun; =
But not single Comic Section. - -.st
I reeollect those harsh affairs, --,,
The morning bells that gave US panics;
I recollect the formal prayers, r ,..
,o That seemed like lessons in Mechanics;
l recollect the drowsy way -1,'i' si.'' ,'+ '..
7'g5 In which the students listened to them,
As clearly, in my wig, to-day, .ar.I %. =! !...
As when, boy, slumbered through them
y'f recollect the tutors all g -, .st' ,' 5s - ~
AS freshly now, if may say so, a..r-
As any chapter l. recall
LIN. Homer or 0yidius Saso.g4 49, tes-s+
+Efecoliect extremely well, 81 SkAJsf : = )
"Old Hugh" the mildest of fanatics;
-,IfIyven, remember Matthew Bell, ,.suaes AZ
sR Butlyery5 family Mathematics. ra.a'e:
reeollect the prizes paid = go
For lessons fathomed to the bottom;
,(Alas, that pencil-marks should fade!
r9aso recoliect the chaps who got EN-
The light eqtiestrians who SCARED ''.H
Ger every passage reckoned stony;
And toek.the chalks-but neyer5scored
-,.,,,A4 single honor -, to the ponyl ~, rea 81
q! Ah,s met what changes Time has wrought 'tr
And how predictions have miscarriedl
A few have reached the goal they sought,
and some are dead and sotze are married;
And somein city journals war &
And.schie9 as politicians bicker;
And some are pleading at the bar,
For jury veriicts, ,Eor for ,1quor
And some on Trade and Commerce wait; ~
And some in schools with ounces battle;
.raAnd some the Gospel propagate; assat= = ~
And some the choicest breeds ofIcattle;
And some are living at their ease; zea7atik
10 And some were wnecked in the sirevulsion;''
Some serve the State for handsome fees, so5
ssueiAnd one, Ihear, upon eompulsien i5ana.l
Lamont, who, in his college days,
Thought cen q. cross a moral scandal,
l. Has left his Plritanic ways . s5sgsslik
saJ And worships now with beilaand candle;
= And Mann, who mourned the negros fate,o
And held the slaves as most unlucky,
Now holds him. at the market rate,
zH.I 0n.a plantation in Kentucky! .2Hfo
Tom, Knox, who sYore in such o tone ,o.-
III fairly might be doubted whether IT IL
1t really was himself alone, Of sag :. g.. .-- ~
-- Or Knox and Erebus together
- Has grown a very altered man, - + ." "A Is
And changing oaths for mild entreaty,
- Now recommends the christian plan afi
,gineTo sayages in i0taheite eii' nHa Is ..a
sii - a1iF0 .sag9I I1E9 = {. tara sd m
Alas, for young ambitions VOW, II aaz.si s..
How envious Fate may overthrow It'll
Poor Harveyfis in Cohgessi now,
% Who struggled long toibe5a poet. .enaalJA
.eaSmith earRes sauiteowsll) memorial stones
oiiis2 Whestriealin lFain to make the,law go, %
all Hall deals in hides; and .Rieus Jones'fs1oo
"a Is.daaling. .2arBdh 6hieagol ss:e aasesfTeE
And sadderstiiB thesbrilliant Hays,
-,-d Once honest manly and ambitious, eaiI
Has taken k.tterly to7ways, .ssa4 d.
-.o7 Extremely proagate and vicious 1iroJlI
: BY slow degrees--I can't tell how. 4Hssa
He's reached at least the very groundsel
And in New York he hgures now,
- A member of the Common Gouncin ,'" =
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