The scholar tries and tries again
To read, but can’t; confounds the cherries,
And swears that every effort’s vain
To answer all his master’s queries;
For Greek and Latin quite a jeer is,
Where every chorus, every verse
Is interrupted, for alack!
When he begins one to rehearse,
The thread is broke, himself thrown back,
By this perpetual click-a-tee-clack.[227]
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 61·55.
[226] Lambert’s Hist. of London, vol. ii p. 461.
[227] Dr. Forster’s Perennial Calendar.