A SCHOOLROOM IDYL.
How plainly I remember all! The desks, deep-scored and blackened, The row of blackboards ’round the wall, The hum that never slackened ; And framed about by map and chart, And casts of dusty plaster, That wisest head and warmest heart, The kindly old schoolmaster.
I see the sunny corner nook His blue-eyea daughter sat in. A rosy, fair-haired girl, who took With us her French aud Latin. How longingly I watched the hours For Olleudoff and Caesar : And how I fought with i'o iy Powers The day he tried to tease her! And when, one day, it took the “ Hext!” To stay some Gialiic slaughter, Because I quite forget the text In smiling at his daughter, Aud she and I were “ kept till four To study, after closing.” We stopped the clock an hour or more Whil he, poor man, was dozing! And there he sits with bended head, O’er some old volume poring (Or so he thinks ; if truth be said He’s fast asleep and snoring). And win re the shaded lamplight plays Across the cradle’s rocking My schoolmate of the older days iSits, mending baby’s stockings.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 27, 30 September 1893, Page 5
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191A SCHOOLROOM IDYL. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 27, 30 September 1893, Page 5
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