nglo-Saxon
What they thought about the thing:
"Seats of learning are designed
For to Educate the Mind,
Not to teach a craft or trade,"
_That_ was what these persons said!

What! and must a thwarted Nation
Draw the obvious inference?
What! a Liberal Education
Doesn't mean the quest of pence?
(Really, this extremely crude
Obscurantist attitude
Isn't quite what one expects
From distinguished Architects!)

Here's another dear illusion
Reft away and wholly gone:
O the spiritual confusion
Of the pained progressive Don!
If the facts are quite correct
As regards the Architect,
Comes the question, plain and clear,
_How about the Engineer_?

ICHABOD: A MONODY

Now is the time when everything is glad,
Their vernal greenery the fields renew,
Each feathered songster chants with livelier tone,
And lambkins leap and cloudless skies are blue,
And all is gay and cheerful:--I alone
Am singularly sad;
Mine erstwhile happiness and calm content
Yields to a sense of sorrowful surprise:
Things that I thought were thus, are otherwise:
And all is grief, and disillusionment.

For He, who did in everything surpass
Our common world,--the Good, the Truly Great,
The Working Man, who shamed with standards high
Our obscurantists unregenerate,--
Is not, 'twould seem, better than you, or I,
Or any other ass:
The vision's faded, as a snowflake melts;
Fallen is that idol from his high renown:
He hath waxed fat, and kicked, and tumbled down,
And we must seek ensamples somewhere else!

Where is it, Comrades! in this direful day--
That noble zeal for academic lore,
That reverence due for discipline, in which
He used to shine conspicuously o'er
The Brainless Athlete and the Idle Rich?
O, does he now display
That ample breadth of calm impartial view,
That sober judgment and that balanced mind,
Which we were taught that we should always find,
O R---skin College, domiciled in you?

I have a Pupil: when his mental food
Fails (as it will) his appetite to sate,
What! does that patient much-enduring elf
Proclaim a strike? set pickets at my gate?
Boycott my lectures? give them for himself?
(Full oft I wish he would:)
Nay--when he finds those lectures dull and flat,
He as