Excerpt from The Happy Teacher
The Happy Teacher
I
Who is the Happy Teacher? - Represent
In his dimensions like himself, O Muse,
His very effigy, his lineament
Essential: yet, as painters ever use,
Portray the happy guide of noble youth
Ideally, - that is with inward truth!
Thus without due premeditance
Invoking with rash utterance
The Muse (presumptuous son of Earth,
Daring to summon as a slave
The Goddess of celestial birth!),
I head my pinnace to the wave;
But, look you! not a zephyr blows
To clear us from the lee of prose:
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