1918 Cedrus Yearbook

19 SOLILOQUY ON VACCINATION Of all things in Science's creation The most hideous of these is vaccination! The decree came forth from a delegation To do our bit—to help our Nation— Stamp out a disease by acclamation. And the method to be used was vaccination! We looked for aid in concentration, But there was no use in exhortation, And the powers would make no alteration, And we could not depend on equivocation, So finally in sheer desperation, Like lambs, we submitted to the operation! For this is the way of civilization. But later the pain showed their location. The doctors had made a defalcation And all of our fears had crystallization, Till pale, at last in desperation We took an unlooked-for vacatioti. But back we came with decoration— Thank heaven we're thru with vaccination. 94 18 A. VICTIM.