Surrounded what before them lay, and guzzled quick and fast.

So every boarder, at his seat, along those solid rows,

Leaveth of all the bounteous feast no remnant when he goes.

These students take an interest in me above the rest;

So every day at every meal I dress up in my best.

Put on my blue alpaca waist and Dolly Varden skirt;

While with a black morocco belt my slender waist is girt.

I wear my golden ear-rings, which cost fifty cents the pair;

The yellow necktie you gave me, likewise, I always wear.

Besides these fascinations, I'm adorned with many more, -

If you could only see my hair, done a la Pompadour.

Not to a soul but you would I for worlds the secret tell,

But I'm conceded on all hands to be the Commons belle.

Now I must close; I'm getting on quite well, as first I stated.

The President has gone and made us all get vaccinated.

I hope these lines find you as well as they have just left me.

I am, believe me,

Ever yours till death,

ELIZA B.