lirik lagu ghizela rowe - ambrose bierce - a poet's father
welcker, i’m told, can boast a father great
and honored in the service of the state
public instruction all his mind employs—
he guides its methods and its wage enjoys
prime pedagogue, imperious and grand
he waves his ferule o’er a studious land
where humming youths, intent upon the page
thirsting for knowledge with a n0ble rage
drink dry the whole pierian spring and ask
to slake their fervor at his private flask
arrested by the terror of his frown
the vaulting spit~ball drops untimely down;
the fly impaled on the tormenting pin
stills in his awful glance its dizzy din;
beneath that stern regard the chewing~gum
which writhed and squeaked between the t~~th is dumb;
obedient to his will the dunce~cap flies
to perch upon the brows of the unwise;
the supple switch forsakes the parent wood
to settle where ’twill do the greatest good
puissant still, as when of old it strove
with solomon for spitting on the stove
learned professor, variously great
guide, guardian, instructor of the state—
quick to discern and zealous to correct
the faults which mar the public intellect
from where of siskiyou the northern bound
is frozen eternal to the sunless ground
to where in san diego’s torrid clime
the swarthy greaser swelters in his grime—
beneath your stupid nose can you not see
the dunce whom once you dandled on your knee?
o mighty master of a thousand schools
stop teaching wisdom, or stop breeding fools
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