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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Elective Course</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LINES FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF A HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bloom that lies on Fanny's cheek <br>Is all my Latin, all my Greek; <br>The only sciences I know <br>Are frowns that gloom and smiles that glow; <br>Siberia and Italy <br>Lie in her sweet geography; <br>No scolarship have I but such <br>As teaches me to love her much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I strive to read the skies, <br>Who know the midnight of her eyes? <br>Why should I go so very far <br>To learn what heavenly bodies are! <br>Not Berenice's starry hair <br>With Fanny's tresses can compare; <br>Not Venus on a cloudless night, <br>Enslaving Science with her light, <br>Ever reveals so much as when <br>She stares and droops her lids again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Nature's secrets are forbidden <br>To mortals, she may keep them hidden. <br>Æons and æons we progressed <br>And did not let that break our rest; <br>Little we cared if Mars o'erhead <br>Were or were not inhabited; <br>Without the aid of Saturn's rings <br>Fair girls were wived in those fair springs; <br>Warm lips met ours, and conquered us <br>Or ere thou wert, Copernicus!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Graybeards, who wish to bridge the chasm <br>'Twixt man to-day and protoplasm, <br>Who theorize and probe and gape, <br>And finally evolve an ape-- <br>Yours is a harmless sort of cult, <br>If you are pleased with the result. <br>Some folks admit, with cynic grace, <br>That you have rather proved your case. <br>Those dogmatists are so severe! <br>Enough for me that Fanny's here, <br>Enough that, having survived <br>Pre-Eveic forms, she has arrived-- <br>An illustration the completest <br>Of the survival of the sweetest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Linnæus aveunt! I only care <br>To know what flower she wants to wear. <br>I leave it to the addle-pated <br>To guess how pinks originated, <br>As if it mattered! The chief thing <br>Is that we have them in the Spring, <br>And Fanny likes them. When they come, <br>I straightaway send and purchase some. <br>The Origin of Plants--go to! <br>Their proper end I have in view.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O loveliest book that ever man <br>Looked into since the world began <br>Is Woman! As I turn those pages, <br>As fresh as in the primal ages, <br>As day by day I scan, perplext, <br>The ever subtly changing text, <br>I feel that I am slowly growing <br>To think no other work worth knowing. <br>And in my copy--there is none <br>So perfect as the one I own-- <br>I find no thing set down as such <br>As teaches me to love it much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</a><div class=q>
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The bloom that lies on Fanny's cheek 
Is all my Latin, all my Greek; 
The only sciences I know 
Are frowns that gloom and smiles that glow; 
Siberia and Italy 
Lie in her sweet geography; 
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