Ah! you have been a travelled pipe;
But now, of course, you’re
getting stale,
Just like myself, and rather ripe;
You’ve had your fill
of cakes and ale,
And half-forgotten memories, too.
And all the pensive thoughts
that twine
Around a past that, entre nous,
Has pleasant been, old pipe
of mine.
Old pipe of mine, for many a year
What boon companions we have
been!
With here a smile and there a tear,
How many changes we have seen!
How many hearts have ceased to beat,
How many eyes have ceased
to shine,
How many friends will never meet,
Since first we met, old pipe
of mine!
Though here and there the road was deep,
And now and then the rain
would fall;
We managed every time to keep
A sturdy forehead to them
all!
And even when she left my side,
We didn’t wait to fret
or pine,
Oh, no; we said the world was wide,
And luck would turn, old pipe
of mine!
CANNON SONG.
And it has turned since you and I
Set out to face the world
alone;
And, in a garret near the sky,
Had scarce a crust to call
our own,
But many a banquet, Barmecide;
And many a dream of hope divine,
Lie buried in the moaning tide,
That drowns the past, old
pipe of mine!
But prosing isn’t quite the thing,
And so, I guess, I’ll
give it up:
Just wait a moment while I sing;
We’ll have another parting
cup,
And then to bed. The stars are low;
Yon sickly moon has ceased
to shine;
So here she goes, and off we go
To Slumberland, old pipe of
mine!
JOHN J. GORMLEY.
CANNON SONG.
Come, seniors, come, and fill your pipes,
Your richest incense raise;
Let’s take a smoke, a parting smoke,
For good old by-gone days!
Chorus. For good old by-gone
days,
We’ll smoke for good
old by-gone days!
We’ll take a smoke, a parting smoke,
For good old by-gone days!
We’ll crown the cannon with a cloud,
We’ll celebrate its
praise;
Recalling its old parting smoke,
For good old by-gone days!
We’ll smoke to these we leave behind
In devious college ways;
We’ll smoke to songs we’ve
sung before,
In good old by-gone days.
We’ll smoke to Alma Mater’s
name;
She loves the cloud we raise!
For well she knows the “biggest
guns”
Are in the coming days!
We’ll smoke the times, the good
old times,
When we were called fire!
Their light shall blaze in memory,
Till the lamp of life expire!
Then let each smoking pipe be broke,—
Hurrah for coming days!
We’ll take a march, a merry march,
To meet the coming days!