Three Weary Fourth Formers
by Douglas J "Cardew" Robinson - written when he was in Form IVc, aged about 15, in 1933.
We're three weary Fourth Formers, Reggie, Eustace and Claude,
And we'd like you to know we are terribly bored;
This constant exertion is getting us down.
Well I mean, don't you know, it's too hard on a lad.
We work all day long, doing things in our head!
From the time we arrive till we crawl back to bed;
And, when we're not writing or trying to read,
They make us do Maths - why it's shaking indeed.
They pull us, and tug us, and stretch us at Gym.,
And we crawl back to work with an ache in each limb;
We have to play Rugger - a nasty rough game;
It's at croquet and marbles that we have won fame.
It's really too hard; you can say what you like,
If we weren't so exhausted, we should go right on strike.
But don't think that we aren't with ambition fired,
And it's not that we're lazy - just simple, born tired.
Hot Breaks (IV.D)
Source: Gaytonian, June 1933
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