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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348437" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Vulture and the Husbandman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By Louisa CarolineN.B. -- A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, whichdestroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb with its powerfulbeak and talons.A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life, who supportshimself by the use of the plough. -- (Johnson's Dictionary).<br> The rain was raining cheerfully,<br> As if it had been May;<br> The Senate-House appeared inside<br> Unusually gay;<br> And this was strange, because it was<br> A Viva-voce day.<br> The men were sitting sulkily,<br> Their paper work was done;<br> They wanted much to go away<br> To ride or row or run;<br> "It's very rude," they said, "to keep<br> Us here, and spoil our fun."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The papers they had finished lay<br> In piles of blue and white.<br> They answered every thing they could,<br> And wrote with all their might,<br> But, though they wrote it all by rote,<br> They did not write it right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The Vulture and the Husbandman<br> Beside these piles did stand,<br> They wept like anything to see<br> The work they had in hand.<br> "If this were only finished up,"<br> Said they, "it would be grand!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "If seven D's or seven C's<br> We give to all the crowd,<br> Do you suppose," the Vulture said,<br> "That we could get them ploughed?"<br> "I think so," said the Husbandman,<br> "But pray don't talk so loud."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "O undergraduates, come up,"<br> The Vulture did beseech,<br> "And let us see if you can learn<br> As well as we can teach;<br> We cannot do with more than two<br> To have a word with each."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Two Undergraduates came up,<br> And slowly took a seat,<br> They knit their brows, and bit their thumbs,<br> As if they found them sweet,<br> And this was odd, because you know<br> Thumbs are not good to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "The time has come," the Vulture said,<br> "To talk of many things,<br> Of Accidence and Adjectives,<br> And names of Jewish kings,<br> How many notes a sackbut has,<br> And whether shawms have strings."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "Please, Sir," the Undergraduates said,<br> Turning a little blue,<br> "We did not know that was the sort<br> Of thing we had to do."<br> "We thank you much," the Vulture said,<br> "Send up another two."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Two more came up, and then two more,<br> And more, and more and more;<br> And some looked upwards at the roof,<br> Some down upon the floor,<br> But none were any wiser than<br> The pair that went before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "I weep for you," the Vulture said,<br> "I deeply sympathise!"<br> With sobs and tears he gave them all<br> D's of the largest size,<br> While at the Husbandman he winked<br> One of his streaming eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "I think," observed the Husbandman,<br> "We're getting on too quick.<br> Are we not putting down the D's<br> A little bit too thick?"<br> The Vulture said with much disgust<br> "Their answers make me sick."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "Now, Undergraduates," he cried,<br> Our fun is nearly done,<br> "Will anybody else come up?"<br> But answer came there none;<br> And this was scarcely odd, because<br> They'd ploughed them every one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Clement+Hilton">Arthur Clement Hilton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348437" data-title="The Vulture and the Husbandman de Arthur Clement Hilton" data-description="By Louisa CarolineN.B. -- A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, whichdestroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb with its powerfulbeak and talons.A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life, who supportshimself by the use of the ploug..."></div> </div> </div>
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