. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . Not very, very plain. But the lady she was modest, And she said, You me confuse ;I have come, O man of wisdom, To get a bit of s a problem of lifes problems That often puzzles me :Tell me true, O man of Science, When my wedding-day will be. IV. Quick by the hand he seized her, He of the philosophic,And his answer greatly pleased her When they had taken tea : T will be, my fair young lady, When you are twenty-three !. They you straightway ininvite. j42 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. At her window, filled with flowers
. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . Not very, very plain. But the lady she was modest, And she said, You me confuse ;I have come, O man of wisdom, To get a bit of s a problem of lifes problems That often puzzles me :Tell me true, O man of Science, When my wedding-day will be. IV. Quick by the hand he seized her, He of the philosophic,And his answer greatly pleased her When they had taken tea : T will be, my fair young lady, When you are twenty-three !. They you straightway ininvite. j42 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. At her window, filled with flowers,Then she waited happy hours,Scanned the byways and the highways To see what she could the postman brought a letter,It was sure to greatly fret her,—Fret her so her maid she d frighten, If a dun it proved to it came not from a lover,Sadly she her face would cover,Hide her face and say in sorrow, Truly he will come to-morrow,For he knew, that man of science, And I m ahnost twenty-three. He deceived her, he deceived her,Oh, that too kind man deceived her, —He of compasses and lenses,He of new-found influences, He of the philosophicOh the chatterer, oh the flatterer,Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be !Had he taken the old almanac,That true guide to worldly wisdom,He would have seen that there was something-Some stray figure, some lost factor,Something added the extractor — Wrong in his chronologie, In his learned chronologie. MORAL. There
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