<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455575" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written for my Son ... upon his Master's First Bringing in a Rod</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUR master, in a fatal hour,<br> Brought in this Rod, to shew his pow'r.<br> O dreadful birch ! O baleful tree !<br> Thou instrument of tyranny !<br> Thou deadly damp to youthful joys !<br> The sight of thee our peace destroys.<br> Not Damocles, with greater dread,<br> Beheld the weapon o'er his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> That sage was surely more discerning,<br> Who taught to play us into learning,<br> By graving letters on the dice :<br> May heav'n reward the kind device,<br> And crown him with immortal fame,<br> Who taught at once to read and game !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Take my advice ; pursue that rule ;<br> You'll make a fortune by your school.<br> You'll soon have all the elder brothers,<br> And be the darling of the mothers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O may I live to hail the day,<br> When boys shall go to school to play !<br> To grammar rules we'll bid defiance ;<br> For play will then become a science.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Barber">Mary Barber</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455575" data-title="Written for my Son ... upon his Master's First Bringing in a Rod de Mary Barber" data-description="OUR master, in a fatal hour, Brought in this Rod, to shew his pow'r. O dreadful birch ! O baleful tree ! Thou instrument of tyranny ! Thou deadly damp to youthful joys ! The sight of thee our peace destroys. Not Damocles, with greater dread,..."></div> </div> </div>

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