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OMES a train of little ladies From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is,
 * Wondering what the world can be!

Is it but a world of trouble—
 * Sadness set to song?

Is its beauty but a bubble
 * Bound to break ere long?

Are its palaces and pleasures
 * Fantasies that fade?

And the glory of its treasures
 * Shadow of a shade?

Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,
 * From scholastic trammels free,

And we wonder—how we wonder!—
 * What on earth the world can be!