The Sunniest Season Of Life - 19th Century

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 05 Sept 2001

O where is the sphere like a student career,
with its infinitesimal trouble,
its hope and its fear
with its chances and its cheer,
its trials that burst as a bubble?
Philosophers say that life is no play;
and sometimes they say so with reason;
Be that as it may;
yet the student's brief day,
is the happygoluckiest season.

Be it spent in the North,
by The Clyde, by The Forth,
or yet in the Kingdom of Fife,
'Tis the maddest, most merry,
the saddest to bury,
The sunniest season of life.

What badge of renown
can compare with the Gown,
our great academical glory;
To be reared by the Crown
in the sleepy old town,
where all is so silent and hoary?
Imperial Kings, what a majesty clings
to thee from the echoing ages!
The silence takes wings
when there merrily rings
the voice of thy embryo sages.

Be it spent in the North,
by The Clyde, by The Forth,
or yet in the Kingdom of Fife,
'Tis the maddest, most merry,
the saddest to bury,
The sunniest season of life.

For scientist claim,
so accustomed to fame
a view of creation impartial,
for those who would aim
at the cure of the maim
stand open the portals of Marischal.
Yet the barons of bones,
both the dons and the drones;
are ever the first to acknowledge
there's less in the stones
of the goodliest thrones
than what may be found in their college.

Be it spent in the North,
by The Clyde, by The Forth,
or yet in the Kingdom of Fife,
'Tis the maddest, most merry,
the saddest to bury,
The sunniest season of life.

The student of Greek
with his training to seek
the joy of historic emotion,
Divines that are meek,
and the legalist sleek,
The med. with his pills and his lotion.
With scarce an alloy
to disturb and annoy
we always are happy and airy.
And now to our joy
comes the damozel coy
A true undergraduate fairy.

Be it spent in the North,
by The Clyde, by The Forth,
or yet in the Kingdom of Fife,
'Tis the maddest, most merry,
the saddest to bury,
The sunniest season of life.

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The Sunniest Side Of Life - 19th Century

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The Sunniest Side Of Life - 19th Century
Music by John Kirby
words by John Malcolm Bush M.A.
sequenced for Piano by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 05 Sept 2001 at 09.13
in association with Doug Grierson
and my thanks too, to Peter Addison, ex-cricketer, Leicestershire
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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