<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357588" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Growing Pains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold the undergraduate <br>A most amusing fellow<br>In all his jesting up-to-date <br>His sense of humor is so great,<br>His modern wit so mellow,<br>That no quip serves him lest it be<br>Rich in originality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Assured of overwhelming odds,<br>Seizing the freshmen's persons,<br>Indelibly he daubs these clods,<br>To waken mirth in men and gods.<br>(Saving a few McPhersons<br>And other members of their race<br>Who have of humor, not a trace.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The softier sort of joke that serves<br>Dull age - the quaint or quizzical <br>Gains his contempt, as it deserves;<br>Mere wordy wit gets on his nerves;<br>His jokes are ever physical,<br>And richer qualities attain<br>The more they hold of cosmic pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To torture victims till they squeal<br>Is mirthfully effectual;<br>Humor lacks pith unless these feel<br>Fierce torments: wit has no appeal<br>That's solely intellectual.<br>The quirk, the paradox outworn,<br>The epigram but earn his scorn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No milder jest may give him joy <br>Strange, adolescent creature,<br>Suspended 'twixt the man and boy <br>No rag's worth while lest it employ<br>Some quaintly painful feature;<br>But jokes, that moved the stone-age man<br>To shrieks of mirth, he'll gladly plan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold the undergraduate<br>And pity him a little,<br>Remembering 'twas once our fate<br>To linger in that loutish state<br>That holds of grace no tittle,<br>But comes alike to boy and pup <br>The penalty of growing up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357588" data-title="Growing Pains de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Behold the undergraduate A most amusing fellow In all his jesting up-to-date His sense of humor is so great, His modern wit so mellow, That no quip serves him lest it be Rich in originality. Assured of overwhelming odds, Seizing the freshmen's ..."></div> </div> </div>

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