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CAN see the towers In mind quite clear Not many hours' Faring from here; But how up and go, And briskly bear Thither, and know That you are not there?

Though the birds sing small, And apple and pear On your trees by the wall Are ripe and rare, Though none excel them, I have no care To taste them or smell them And you not there.

Though the College stones Are smit with the sun, And the graduates and Dons Who held you as one