The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
College HumorFrom the Rubaiyat of Mr. Hennessy
B. P. Four, in “East and West,” Columbia
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To all this High Serblime, an’ sich like rot;
And now I know jist what I knew before;
Mebbe it’s thrue, me b’y—mebbe it’s not.
They’ll never see—they’ll niver git that high.
Ah, Terence, don’t ye listen to no band
Ten blocks away, playin’ “Swate by an’ by.”
A wild young t’ing to kiss behind the door,
An’ now an’ thin an avenin’ wit’ the dhrink—
Sure, what the divil wud ye ask wit’ more?
Man, don’t be t’inkin’ of all the t’ings ye lack;
Ye know this ain’t no long job, annyway,
An’ any minnit we may get the sack.