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- The black and golden slaves of florid sugar canes
- Were flying back and forth and pollinating
- And worms were squirming on the cruel hooks
- As anglers roughly used them for the baiting.
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- The water of the lake was blue,
- Reflection of the skies so true
And students for exam results were waiting.
- Among the girls there (and the boys) most worried was
- A girl as beautiful as sweet is honey,
- A girl as gentle and as courteous as you wish
- A waitress to be, if you give her money
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- And nurses in the hospital
- If ever out of health you fall:
Except to her own self, her mood was sunny.
- But thinking of exam results
- Was taxing all her better moods
- Her heart was down into her shoes
- The thoughts like heavy catapults
- Were throwing questions like the stones
- On mind's defenses (not her bones!)
- She worried to have answered wrong
- Omitting this and failing that
- In triflings (judged by talking at
- A bar about it or a song
- Retelling all the history),
- And yet she feared too great they be.
- A fellow student from the course she chanced to see.
- A trifler and a dabbler in the study.
- Disordered and thus over all the faculty
- A story of his own - and was he muddy
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- In brain and mind and memory?
- Pain in the ass of faculty
Except she was to him a kind of buddy.
- Like oft before unpacking all the sandwiches
- She had prepared at home and also coffee
- In thermos bottle, she called out his name
- And changed a bit of food for bars of toffee :
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- First cheese they ate, then sausages,
- Then coffee with a toffee tress
Her mood was really better then a little while
But after that a moment came, was stuffy.
- - "Oh boy, I think I failed the test."
- - "Perhaps you did and so did I,
- At least we gave it some good try."
- - "You can't have failed, you are the best."
- - "No, that is you, though well I do."
- - "Your doing well is very true!"
- - "O Kay, suppose we fail it all,
- Why worry, life has more to give
- Than studies, though I like to live
- Among the books so classical."
- - "And so do I, but right you are
- (Though, frankly, you exceed by far
- The standard talent for the college course,
- You're absent minded like an old professor)"
- - "Don't make me pround, I'm haughty as it is
- And getting penances for it from my confessor!"
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- - "Ah yes," she answered then and there:
- "You're Catholic, or so I hear!"
- "Indeed, that is a fact you need not guess for!"
- Then rang a bell, out their professor came
- "Results are here," he said with gusto.
- He pinned the list unto a message board
- (The solid object you can trust - o!)
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- A throng of students would be first
- To verify the best or worst
But girl and boy no quicker than they must - o!
- Their talk went on behind the rest
- They wanted to approach it last
- And really were at all not fast.
- "Come on, you two, you scored the best!"
- A comrade shouted to the two,
- And so they did, they had to do.
- She had no faults and he had one
- From negligence, there is no doubt,
- They both knew what they were about.
- The test was done and it was fun
- To get the papers they had wrote
- And read each red professor's note.
- They gave the papers back to archive them
- As these were those that were the most important
- Of all the year. Our couple saw the victory
- As somewhat of an optimistic portent.
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- And yet they knew within their heart
- That scholarship and even art
Do matter less than matters more important.
- The black and golden slaves of florid sugar canes
- Were flying back and forth and pollinating
- And worms were squirming on the cruel hooks
- As anglers roughly used them for more baiting.
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- The water of the lake was blue,
- Reflection of the skies so true
And anglers for more fish were waiting.
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