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THE SONG OF THE DIG.

(Written after a Day's Work on a Thesis for History.)

WITH fingers inky and worn,

With eyelids heavy and red,

A student sat in a lonely room,

With a towel about his head.

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Grind, grind, grind!

From books both little and big;

And, cudgelling ever his weary mind,

He sang The Song of the Dig.

Grind, grind, grind!

The thesis is but begun;

Grind, grind, grind!

My work will never be done.

It 's - Oh! to be a slave

To the desk of a merchant's clerk,

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