The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . OU are old, ^Father World/ cried the Graduate, But for oue of your age and size,I feel it is only my duty to stateYou are not uncommonly wise. I am aged,^ replied Father World, ^ it is true. And not very wise I you think tho its fair for a scholar like you To ahuse an old fossil like me ?. Said the youth, ^ I refer not to college degrees,Nor dates that one crams in his skull, I complain not because you are lacking in these,But because you re so awfully dull! 41

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