For philosophic stone - the Heliotrope
By which sans toil to capture a degree.
Bohn, and electives mollified, have been
But as delusions to my artless mind;
They found me able, they have left me dull,
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Now nought remains but gently break the news
To those at home, - then westward ho! for me.
(A smell of sulphur, a thick smoke, and then a supernatural being appears.)
Ha! what is that? a demon or a sprite?
MEPHISTO. I am Mephisto, a friend to the needy;
I heard thee bewailing, and here come to thee
To offer conditions - if thou art not too greedy -
By which thou may'st get thy wished-for degree.
I'll hand thee the sheep-skin - a pretty cum laude -
By all the professors and president signed,
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