III
“Are ye puffed with the pride of learning?
Are ye pleased with the praise of fools?
Have your minds grown cramped and narrow
With the lore that ye learned in schools?
Has your knowledge made you slothful,
And your culture made you vain,
That ye think to gain without labor
What another must toil to gain?
Then are your years here wasted
As pearls that are cast to swine!
Then are ye servants of servants,
And no true sons of mine!
For they who began behind you
Shall pass you in the race;
And untaught men shall shame you
In the open market-place!