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,