Sic transit gloria mundi

"Sic transit gloria mundi,"[^a1]
"How doth the busy bee,"
"Dum vivimus vivamus,"[^a2]
I stay mine enemy!

[^a1: om. | om.]

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Oh "veni, vidi, vici!"[^a3]
Oh caput cap-a-pie!
And oh "memento mori"[^a4]
When I am far from thee!

[^a3: om. | om.]

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Hurrah for Peter Parley![^a5]
Hurrah for Daniel Boon!
Three cheers, sir, for the gentleman[^a6]
Who first observed the moon!

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Peter, put up the sunshine;[^a7]
Pattie, arrange the stars;
Tell Luna, tea is waiting,[^a8]
And call your brother Mars!

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Put down the apple, Adam,[^a9]
And come away with me,
So shalt thou have a pippin[^a10]
From off my father's tree!

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I climb the "Hill of Science,"[^a11]
I "view the landscape o'er;"
Such transcendental prospect,[^a12]
I ne'er beheld before!

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Unto the Legislature[^a13]
My country bids me go;
I'll take my india rubbers,[^a14]
In case should blow!

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During my education,[^a15]
It was announced to me
That gravitation, stumbling,[^a16]
Fell from an apple tree!

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The earth upon[^a17] an axis[^a18]
Was once supposed to turn,
By way of a gymnastic[^a19]
In honor of the sun!

[^a17: upon | opon]

[^a18: om. | om.]

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It was the brave Columbus,[^a20]
A sailing o'er the tide,
Who notified the nations[^a21]
Of where I would reside!

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Mortality is fatal[^a22]
Gentility is fine,
Rascality, heroic,[^a23]
Insolvency, sublime!

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Our Fathers being weary,[^a24]
Laid down on Bunker Hill;
And tho' full many a morning,[^a25]
Yet they are sleeping still,--

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The trumpet, sir, shall wake them,[^a26]
In dreams I see them rise,
Each with a solemn musket[^a27]
A marching to the skies!

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A coward will remain, Sir,[^a28]
Until the fight is done;
But an immortal hero[^a29]
Will take his hat, and run!

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Good bye, Sir, I am going;
My country calleth me;[^a30]
Allow me, Sir, at parting,
To wipe my weeping e'e.[^a31]

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In token of our friendship
Accept this "Bonnie Doon,"[^a32]
And when the hand that plucked it
Hath passed beyond the moon,[^a33]

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The memory of my ashes
Will consolation be;[^a34]
Then, farewell, Tuscarora,
And farewell, Sir, to thee!

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