<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lament of Toby, The Learned Pig</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, heavy day! oh, day of woe!<br>To misery a poster,<br>Why was I ever farrowed, why<br>Not spitted for a roaster?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this world, pigs, as well as men,<br>Must dance to fortune's fiddlings,<br>But must I give the classics up,<br>For barley-meal and middlings?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of what avail that I could spell<br>And read, just like my betters,<br>If I must come to this at last,<br>To litters, not to letters?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, why are pigs made scholars of?<br>It baffles my discerning,<br>What griskins, fry, and chitterlings<br>Can have to do with learning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! my learning once drew cash,<br>But public fame's unstable,<br>So I must turn a pig again<br>And fatten for the table.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To leave my literary line<br>My eyes get red and leaky;<br>But Giblett doesn't want me blue,<br>But red and white, and streaky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Mullins used to cultivate<br>My learning like a gard'ner;<br>But Giblett only thinks of lard,<br>And not of Doctor Lardner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He does not care about my brain<br>The value of two coppers,<br>All that he thinks about my head<br>Is, how I'm off for choppers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all my literary kin<br>A farewell must be taken,<br>Goodbye to the poetic Hogg!<br>The philosophic Bacon!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day after day my lessons fade,<br>My intellect gets muddy;<br>A trough I have, and not a desk,<br>A stye – and not a study!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another little month, and then<br>My progress ends, like Bunyan's;<br>The seven sages that I loved<br>Will be chopped up with onions!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then over head and ears in brine<br>They'll souse me, like a salmon,<br>My mathematics turned to brawn,<br>My logic into gammon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Hebrew will all retrograde,<br>Now I'm put up to fatten,<br>My Greek, it will all go to grease,<br>The dogs will have my Latin!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell to Oxford ! – and to Bliss!<br>To Milman, Crowe, and Glossop, –<br>I now must be content with chats,<br>Instead of learned gossip!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell to 'Town!' farewell to 'Gown!'<br>I've quite outgrown the latter, –<br>Instead of Trencher-cap my head<br>Will soon be in a platter!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, why did I at Brazen-Nose<br>Rout up the roots of knowledge?<br>A butcher that can't read will kill<br>A pig that's been to college!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For sorrow I could stick myself,<br>But conscience is a dasher;<br>A thing that would be rash in man<br>In me would be a rasher!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One thing I ask – when I am dead<br>And past the Stygian ditches –<br>And that is, let my schoolmaster<br>Have one of my two Hitches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas he who taught my letters so<br>I ne'er mistook or missed 'em,<br>Simply by ringing at the nose<br>According to Bell's system.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hood">Thomas Hood</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=529813" data-title="The Lament of Toby, The Learned Pig de Thomas Hood" data-description="Oh, heavy day! oh, day of woe! To misery a poster, Why was I ever farrowed, why Not spitted for a roaster? In this world, pigs, as well as men, Must dance to fortune's fiddlings, But must I give the classics up, For barley-meal and middlings? Of..."></div> </div> </div>

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