Unparalleled, Uzzean!)—do ye mark?—

Five hundred times! So might he entrance beat

"For knowledge into howsoever dark

And dense the brain-pan. Yet it happed, at close

Of one especial lecture, not one spark

"Of light was found to have illumed the rows

Of pupils round their pedagogue. 'What, still

Impenetrable to me? Then—here goes!'

"And for a second time he sets the rill