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Epigram For The Beginning Of Freshman Year
"Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love,
"What a beautiful Pussy you are . . ."
---Edward Lear, "The Owl And The Pussycat"
You have come here to learn more, not less:
more to the sex than the pudendal;
more to love than the sex;
more to yourself than your flesh desires;
more to your mind than what you have not yet learned
if not conceded to the unlearned;
more than the song, its harmony;
more than the verse, its poetry;
more than the past, its history;
more than the future, your destiny;
more than the present, your equilibrium;
more than life's calculations, its sum;
more to live full (the half not yet told)
according to the measure your faith can hold.
The accomplishment of an education
is not in the degreed graduation,
but---right to the last breath---appreciation.
