A pedagogue incarnate; horn-book, tawse.
Cramming and chastisement, not making laws,
His talent and his temperament best befit.
Yet—once he lent his eloquence and wit
To aid the man he now maligns. Ah, me!
"Tricky!"—"corrupt!" What arrant fiddle-de-dee
It sounds—upon these moors, beneath the blue
Of unpolluted skies!
Homer, to you
I turn. Achilles in his wrath could rage,