Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Annual Vision. [ARTICLE]

Annual Vision.

Here you come. Sweet graduate. Setting all our problems straight, Full of hope And other dope That is good if it is so! And it is; you ought to know. As your fluffy knowledge box Secrets of the world unlocks We are prone to pause aghast That your learning is so vast And to wonder how and where All those truths found lodgment there. Science, history and art Loaded in your apple cart. Classified and ready made As you need them in your trade. . And your dress Is, I guess, The embodiment of taste. Running both ways from the waist. And your eyes— Well, the prize They would draw at any fair Where the judges acted square! But It was not on your looks , That we started to make books. All that goes without the saying When a Judge the case is weighing. It was on the way you spell And the things you have to tell That no man has heard before We were marking up the score; How to figure cent per cent. How to run the government. How to Irrigate the plains. Where It never, never rains; Who is king of Timbuktu On the year the bonds felfdue What Is happening In Mars And its farther sister stars. All the secrets deep and vast On the surface you have cast/ And you let the last one out When It comes your turn to spout.