William Schwenck Gilbert

Speculation

Comes a train of little ladies
From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,
Wondering what the world can be!
 
Is it but a world of trouble -
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
 
Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow of a shade?
 
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,
From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder– how we wonder! –
What on earth the world can be!
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