Troubles come and troubles bother / But boil they shall and the stress they father
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Round about the cauldron we go
As words, spells and incantations flow
Head my chant and quake, O legions of schools
For your doom approaches, amidst a blast of many kilojoules
Troubles come and troubles bother
But boil they shall and the stress they father
Columns, pendentives and basilica plans
Consigned to the pot amidst beat and dance
Derivatives, e and cosecant plus sine
Will add flavor, no doubt, once out this life of mine
Troubles come and troubles bother
But boil they shall and the stress they father
Speech and Debate, what horrors of competition
Cast into the broth seems to be adequate compensation
Alkaline metals, halogens and noble gases
O entropy shall increase, as from me AP Chem passes
Troubles come and troubles bother
But boil they shall and the stress they father
Congress, referendums, terms upon terms
Throw them into the pot, amidst a handful of worms
But for Beloved, Pi and Shakespeare's writing
Better in stew than in head, pounding and fighting
Troubles come and troubles bother
But boil they shall and the stress they father
But of college apps, they must be added last
For corrupting the mind that once was sweet and chaste
Harvard, Duke, Stanford and Yale
Light the lot of them, see how they can fail
Troubles come and troubles bother
But boil they shall and the stress they father
The stew is done, the works are seared
Never shall they antagonize, the evils so feared