Chapter 6

5. Had the misguided youth read Ovid less often, and given precedence to Hemans and Ingelow, his fate might have been different. True, he might have hung on a greasy gallows like a highwayman, in squalor, and been the sport of canines for aye; while now, disarmed by death, he lies in a splendid mausoleum, far from the wharves and haunts of men, and can't accent his antepenults, and afford the greatest discrepancies extant in pronunciation.

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2. Go, enter the school-room of primary grade, And see how conspicuous the blackboard is made. The teacher makes letters and calls them by name, And says to the children, "Now all do the same;" Mere infants you see, scarcely able to walk, But none are too feeble to handle the chalk.

3. We visit the school of much higher pretension, The blackboard here claims undivided attention; The walls, dark as Erebus, first greet the eye, Before them bright misses and lads we espy; And the sound of the crayon's irregular tappings Reminds us of spirits' mysterious rappings.

4. One has pictured a vessel, with streamers unfurled, Another is making a map of the world; A third has a problem in fractions to solve, A fourth is explaining how planets revolve; While a young physiologist, skilled in the art, Is sketching the muscles, the lungs, and the heart.

5. In the midst of this bustle the school-master stands, And, lo! he's a crayon in each of his hands; And the chalk in _his_ hand has a magical power: A teacher might reason and talk by the hour, But naught would avail all his reason and talk-- The truth is made plain by the use of the chalk.

6. And the teacher of music the blackboard employs, The chalk must be used e'en in training the voice; Be it rhythm or melody, accent or force, He always insists on the regular course; Declaring the secret of musical skill Is found in the blackboard, the chalk, and the drill.

7. See the chalk in the hand of the artist. Behold What beauteous forms as by magic unfold! The store-house of Nature he swiftly displays, Till the dazzled beholder is lost in the maze; Designs without number appear to the view, And show what the chalk and the blackboard can do.

8. O wise PESTALOZZI! we place on thy brow A coronet, bright and unfading; for thou A legacy rich hast bequeathed unto men: Our _one_ feeble talent by thee is made _ten_; We prize thy rare gift, but we never may know How much to thy matchless invention we owe.

9. O chalk! What a powerful monarch thou art! In this age of reform how important thy part; Those minds that are swaying the world unrestrained In childhood and youth in thy empire were trained. Of the wonderful power of the press we may talk-- It never can vie with the blackboard and chalk.

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