Pansies (Lawrence)/Nottingham's New University—

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NOTTINGHAM'S NEW UNIVERSITY———
In Nottingham, that dismal townwhere I went to school and college,they've built a new universityfor a new dispensation of knowledge.
Built it most grand and cakeilyout of the noble lootderived from shrewd cash-chemistryby good Sir Jesse Boot.
Little I thought, when I was a ladand turned my modest pennyover on Boot's Cash Chemist's counter,that Jesse, by turning many
millions of similar honest penceover, would make a pilethat would rise at last and blossom outin grand and cakey style
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into a universitywhere smart men would dispensedoses of smart cash-chemistryin language of common-sense!
That future Nottingham lads would becash-chemically B.Sc.that Nottingham lights would rise and say:—By Boots I am M.A.
From this I learn, though I knew it beforethat culture has her rootsin the deep dung of cash, and loreis a last offshoot of Boots.

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