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 XIV

WHAT YOU WILL

and see, it's such a sight,

So many boys all doing right:

To see them underneath the yoke,

Blindfolded by the elder folk,

Move at a most impressive rate

Along the way that is called straight.

O, it is comforting to know

They're in the way they ought to go.

But don't you think it's far more gay

To see them slowly leave the way

And limp and loose themselves and fall?

O, that's the nicest thing of all.

1 love to see this sight, for then

I know they are becoming men,

And they are tiring of the shrine

Where things are really not divine.

I do not know if it seems brave

The youthful spirit to enslave,

And hedge about, lest it should grow.

I don't know if it's better so

In the long end. I only know 40