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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414180" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Looking back, nostalgically</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dreaming spires of Oxford lie <br>beneath an ever changing sky<br>A place where students aspire to<br> the earning of a sporting blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or concentrate their energy<br> towards a double first degree<br>Some will succeed and make their mark.<br>To others just a youthful lark</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An honoured university<br> which has been here for centuries<br>The town and gown oft disagree<br> they co exist uneasily</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The students come from far and wide<br> to study by this riverside.<br>They stay here temporarily.<br> Then they must move on hopefully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They leave the dreaming spires behind<br> as they strike out and try to find.<br> Some way to make their dreams come true<br>Some will succeed the elite few<br>.<br>On leaving university<br> you have to face reality.<br> The dreaming spires reluctantly<br>must be consigned to memory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is so much they need to learn.<br>As everybody must in turn, <br> success does not come easily.<br>Degrees provide no guarantee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now is the time when you must show<br> How much or little that you know.<br>Demonstrate your ability <br>and your adaptability..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Convince employers that you can <br>Do just as well as any man.<br>Although you lack experience<br> you have expressed a preference</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by choosing them to apply to. <br>You like the kind of work they do.<br>If you survive the interview<br> and they decide to employ you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your years at university<br>As you will very quickly see<br> have not prepared you to compete. <br>Your dancing to a different beat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have signed on to the Rat race.<br>The city is a different place<br>From Oxford and its dreaming spires<br>where scholars pursue their desires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All that counts here is success <br>you have work hard to progress.<br>Life here is lived by different rules<br> the city has no time for fools.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You must produce results it seems <br> If you want to fulfil your dreams.<br>Although in truth you’d rather be<br>back at your university.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dreaming spires of Oxford lie<br> beneath an ever changing sky.<br>They do not change, no reason to.<br>Unlike the students who must do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">16-Mar-09</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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A place where students aspire to
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 towards a double first degree
Some will succeed and make their mark.
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