Its pebbles are all pearls, all jewels, beauteous, rife.
Whichever be the science makes a teacher famed,
His scholars’ minds with that will surely be inflamed.
A jurist’s pupils study principles of law,
If but their mental principles be free from flaw.590
A lawyer’s prentice over subtle cases pores;
The principles, with him, are most unwelcome bores.
A syntax-teacher rears a host of grammar’s sons,
With whom his syntax passes for the sun of suns.
A teacher who inculcates abnegation’s creed,