Poem by Anonymous

On a Professor with a Small Class

Hail, Aristides, Rhetoric’s great professor!
Of wondrous words we own thee the possessor.
Hail ye, his pupils seven, that mutely hear him
His room’s four walls, and the three benches near him!

[From the Greek.]

1. Ettrick Banks
2. The Banks o’ Glaizart
3. My Wife Has Ta'en the Gee
4. Barthram’s Dirge
5. Fare Ye Weel, My Auld Wife

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