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Sic transit gloria mundi, How doth the busy bee, Dum vivimus vivamus, I stay mine enemy! Oh veni, vidi, vici! Oh caput cap-a-pie! And oh memento mori When I am far from thee! Hurrah for Peter Parley! Hurrah for Daniel Boone! Three cheers, sir, for the gentleman Who first observed the moon! Peter, put up the sunshine; Patti, arrange the stars; Tell Luna, tea is waiting, And call your brother Mars! Put down the apple, Adam, And come away with me, So shalt thou have a pippin From off my fathers tree! I climb the Hill of Science, I view the landscape o Such transcendental prospect, I neer beheld before! Unto the Legislature My country bids me go; Ill take my india rubbers, In case the wind should blow! During my education, It was announced to me That gravitation, stumbling, Fell from an apple tree! The earth upon an axis Was once supposed to turn, | 
