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- To a tune from the Rondo of Mozart's Horn Concerto -

When Lyddon was founded, the Senate propounded
A site that was healthy and high.
So they chose without question, the top of Mount Preston,
As near as could be to the sky.

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So here we live, behind the University;
So here we live, along Virginia Road.

But, more to be pitied, our founders omitted
To do their Malthusian sums.
Population expanded and Lyddon was stranded
Alone in an ocean of slums.

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The winds from the moor swept up to the door,
Blowing bits of waste paper around.
The scavenger dogs appeared out of the fogs
And soot settled down on the ground.

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But still in the spring we could hear the birds sing,
And see sun in the sycamore trees,
Till they shut out all sight of the day and the night,
With a building for lunches and teas.

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To add to the horrors they put up Charles Morris,
A hall for a thousand or so.
Astounded, confounded, completely surrounded,
O where in the world shall we go?

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But 'mid all the menace we still could play tennis
And had a back yard for the cars.
But now once again it is "Goodbye amenities",
And "Hail to the Union Bars."

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For we've wine and good verses, and other small mercies,
We're snug and we're out of the rain,
And now overnight we've acquired a new site
At the top of Mount Preston again.

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