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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Friday and Saturday, 29th & 30th June, 1906

Chorus

page 30

Chorus.

So quick of late the race of mind
That never mortal its speed's divined,
You turn a handle, a screw you wind,
And the brain works very well then.
We are climbing so fast by jump and hop
That we can't turn round and dare not stop,
We expect a smash when we reach the top:
But we'll all be lunatics then.

We've discarded ancient tables of stone,
We've discarded muscle and thew and bone;
And football and hockey are barbarous grown:
Though the games went very well once.
And all we ask is the sacred pill,
The sovereign cure for every ill;
The only way up knowledge hill,
Though the Profs. worked very well once.

In this future age the museum shelves
Will be graced with bits of our noble selves,
Reclaimed from the dust by the man who delves
And wires up the skeletons then.
By the side of Gilly, the great Von Von
Will softly creak to defunct Brown John,
Some interesting details of the late Sorbonne,
And the fate of heretics then.