Poem by Samuel Butler

Language of the Learned

Were Tully now alive, he’d be to seek
In all our Latin terms of art and Greek;
Would never understand one word of sense
The most irrefragable schoolman means:
As if the Schools design’d their terms of art,
Not to advance a science, but to divert;
As Hocus Pocus conjures to amuse
The rabble from observing what he does.

1. Inventions
2. Laborious Writers
3. Politicians
4. Smatterers
5. Fear

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