The Waster's Presentiment

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I shall be spun. There is a voice within
  Which tells me plainly I am all undone;
  For though I toil not, neither do I spin,
  I shall be spun.

  April approaches. I have not begun
  Schwegler or Mackintosh, nor will begin
  Those lucid works till April 21.

  So my degree I do not hope to win,
 For not by ways like mine degrees are won;
  And though, to please my uncle, I go in,
  I shall be spun.

© Robert Fuller Murray