Dr Boli does his bit

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Which reminded me of Auden’s ‘Under Which Lyre’, a rhyming address to Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard 1946.

Encamped upon the college plain
Raw veterans already train
As freshman forces;
Instructors with sarcastic tongue
Shepherd the battle-weary young
Through basic courses.

Among bewildering appliances
For mastering the arts and sciences
They stroll or run,
And nerves that steeled themselves to slaughter
Are shot to pieces by the shorter
Poems of Donne.