Argument

THE POEM (Written during the lent term of 1905)

At Ashburne there is a Society

Which has rapidly gained notoriety,
It's name I can state with propriety, -

Argument

We meet after Punch on a Saturday

With tea and sweet cakes we're a party gay,

Instead of elicit chatting as Students may,

Argument

We talk of meetings Political

And all of us soon are so critical

Our speeches become analytical

Argument

The Signs of our age are Synthetical,

Do you call Walt Whitman poetical?

My theory is not hypothetical

Argument

 

We talk of the Status of human kind

Of Suffrage, and greatness of human mind

Equality, love, but we always find

Argument

If we began all our talks at the break of day

They'd continue till after the Sun's last ray

As we get into bed, the last word we say

Argument!

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A.J.T. (Alice Jane Taylor) - Turner took the married name of Alison Uttley and wrote the children's stories Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig.