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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Post-Prandial</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PHI BETA KAPPA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1881</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'THE Dutch have taken Holland,'--so the schoolboys used to say;<br>The Dutch have taken Harvard,--no doubt of that to-day!<br>For the Wendells were low Dutchmen, and all their vrows were Vans;<br>And the Breitmanns are high Dutchmen, and here is honest Hans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mynheers, you both are welcome! Fair cousin Wendell P.,<br>Our ancestors were dwellers beside the Zuyder Zee;<br>Both Grotius and Erasmus were countrymen of we,<br>And Vondel was our namesake, though he spelt it with a V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is well old Evert Jansen sought a dwelling over sea<br>On the margin of the Hudson, where he sampled you and me<br>Through our grandsires and great-grandsires, for you would n't quite<br>agree<br>With the steady-going burghers along the Zuyder Zee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like our Motley's John of Barnveld, you have always been inclined<br>To speak,--well,--somewhat frankly,--to let us know your mind,<br>And the Mynheers would have told you to be cautious what you said,<br>Or else that silver tongue of yours might cost your precious head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we're very glad you've kept it; it was always Freedom's own,<br>And whenever Reason chose it she found a royal throne;<br>You have whacked us with your sceptre; our backs were little harmed,<br>And while we rubbed our bruises we owned we had been charmed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you, our quasi Dutchman, what welcome should be yours<br>For all the wise prescriptions that work your laughter-cures?<br>'Shake before taking'?--not a bit,--the bottle-cure's a sham;<br>Take before shaking, and you 'll find it shakes your diaphragm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hans Breitmann gif a barty,--vhere is dot barty now?'<br>On every shelf where wit is stored to smooth the careworn brow<br>A health to stout Hans Breitmann! How long before we see<br>Another Hans as handsome,--as bright a man as he!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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WENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET

1881

'THE Dutch have taken Holland,'--so the schoolboys used to say;
The Dutch have taken Harvard,--no doubt of that to-day!
For the Wendells were low Dutchmen, and all their..."></div>
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