<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poor Scholar Of The 'Forties</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY eyelids red and heavy arc<br>With bending o'er the smold'ring peat.<br>I know the Aeneid now by heart,<br>My Virgil read in cold and heat,<br>In loneliness and hunger smart.<br>And I know Homer, too, I ween,<br>As Munster poets know Ossian.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I must walk this road that winds<br>Twixt bog and bog, while east there lies<br>A city with its men and books;<br>With treasures open to the wise,<br>Heart-words from equals, comrade-looks;<br>Down here they have but tale and song,<br>They talk Repeal the whole night long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You teach Greek verbs and Latin nouns,'<br>The dreamer of Young Ireland said,<br>'You do not hear the muffled call,<br>The sword being forged, the far-off tread<br>Of hosts to meet as Gael and Gall<br>What good to us your wisdom-store,<br>Your Latin verse, your Grecian lore?'<br>And what to me is Gael or Gall?<br>Less than the Latin or the Greek<br>I teach these by the dim rush-light<br>In smoky cabins night and week.<br>But what avail my teaching slight?<br>Years hence, in rustic speech, a phrase,<br>As in wild earth a Grecian vase!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Padraic+Colum">Padraic Colum</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=476261" data-title="A Poor Scholar Of The 'Forties de Padraic Colum" data-description="MY eyelids red and heavy arc With bending o'er the smold'ring peat. I know the Aeneid now by heart, My Virgil read in cold and heat, In loneliness and hunger smart. And I know Homer, too, I ween, As Munster poets know Ossian. And I must walk this..."></div> </div> </div>

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