A joke for all of us :D~J.P.C., Poetic Justice (1947), p.37

I know a man who got a first,

But he developed quite a thirst,

And found his practice simply shrank,

In ratio to what he drank.

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I know a man who got a second,

Brilliant - so his tutors reckoned;

Alas, he gambled, and he sank

Lower than the one who drank.

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I know a man who got a third,

Which seems in retrospect absurd;

He's in the surtax region -

soHe must be turning in the dough.

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The man who got a fourth in schools,

Has, contrary to all the rules,

Consistently pursued his star

And made a fortune at the Bar.

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But the best of all the lot is he

Who only got a pass degree;

He wisely wed a wealthy wench,

And ended up upon the Bench.