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WITH APOLOGIES TO LORD TENNYSON
O swallow-tailed purveyor of college sprees, / O skilled to please the student fraternity, / Most honoured publican of Scotland, / Milton, a name to adorn the Cross Keys; / Whose chosen waiters, Samuel, Archibald, / Helped by the boots and marker at billiards, / Wait, as the smoke-filled, crowded chamber / Rings to the roar of a Gaelic chorus -- / Me rather all those temperance hostelries, / The soda siphon fizzily murmuring, / And lime fruit juice and seltzer water / Charm, as a wanderer out in South Street, / Where some recruiting, eager Blue-Ribbonites / Spied me afar and caught by the Post Office, / And crimson-nosed the latest convert / Fastened the odious badge upon me.