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They intend to send a wire

To the moon;

And they'll set the Thames on fire

Very soon;

Then they learn to make silk purses

With their rigs

From the ears of LADY CIRCE'S

Piggy-wigs.

And weasels at their slumbers

They'll trepan;

To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers

They've a plan.

They've a firmly rooted notion

They can cross the Polar Ocean,

And they'll find Perpetual Motion

If they can!

These are the phenomena

That every pretty domina

Hopes that we shall see

At this Universitee!

As for fashion, they forswear it,

So they say,

And the circle – they will square it

Some fine day;

Then the little pigs they're teaching

For to fly;

And the niggers they'll be bleaching

By-and-by!

Each newly joined aspirant

To the clan

Must repudiate the tyrant

Known as Man;

They mock at him and flout him,

For they do not care about him,

And they're "going to do without him"

If they can!

These are the phenomena

That every pretty domina

Hopes that we shall see

At this Universitee!