Then hugs as hugely: speaks too as it acts,

Prodigiously talks nonsense,—townsmen needs

Must parley in their town's vernacular.

Such world has, of two courses, one to choose:

Unworld itself,—or else go blackening off

To its crow-kindred, leave philosophy

Her heights serene, fit perch for owls like you.

Now, since the world demurs to either course,

Permit me,—in default of boy or girl,

So they be reared Athenian, good and true,—