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|Headline=Errant Rogue, in Poem, Prefers Ball to Study
|Headline="Errant Rogue,in Poem, Prefers Ball to Study
|Salience=3
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|Tags=College,  
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"Errant Rogue," in Poem, Prefers Ball to Study

Salience Peripheral
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City/State/Country: United States
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Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
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The Dissipated Collegian

 

"Tis said there was a certain wight,

Whose mother-wit was very bright,

An errant rogue, and even bolder

Than many rogues a good deal older;  . . . 

This wight of ours disdained to study

And hated books in soul and body;

His lessons, therefore, were neglected

Though he as often was corrected;

But when there was a chance to play,

Our rogue wold slily run away;

Yet, had he given due attention,

(So powerful was his comprehension,)

He might have been the first of all

In science, as in playing ball;

He might have done as great exploits

In study as in pitching quoits; . . . .

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Selection of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems, Written or Translated  by Roswell Park, (Desilver, Thomas ad Co., Philadelphia, 1836),. page 44.

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