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A Vision Of A Wrangler, Of A University, Of Pedantry, And Of Philosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Deep St Mary's bell had sounded	A
And the twelve notes gently rounded	A
Endless chimneys that surrounded	A
My abode in Trinity	B
Letter G Old Court South Attics	C
I shut up my mathematics	C
That confounded hydrostatics	C
Sink it in the deepest sea	C
	-
In the grate the flickering embers	C
Served to show how dull November s	C
Fogs had stamped my torpid members	C
Like a plucked and skinny goose	C
And as I prepared for bed I	D
Asked myself with voice unsteady	C
If of all the stuff I read I	D
Ever made the slightest use	C
	-
Late to bed and early rising	E
Ever luxury despising	E
Ever training never quot sizing quot	C
I have suffered with the rest	C
Yellow cheek and forehead ruddy	C
Memory confused and muddy	C
These are the effects of study	C
Of a subject so unblest	C
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Look beyond and see the wrangler	F
Now become a College dangler	F
Court some spiritual angler	F
Nibbling at his golden bait	C
Hear him silence restive Reason	G
Her advice is out of season	G
While her lord is plotting treason	G
Gainst himself and Church or State	C
	-
See him next with place and pension	G
And the very best intention	G
Of upholding that Convention	G
Under which his fortunes rose	C
Every scruple is rejected	C
With his cherished schemes connected	C
quot Higher Powers may be neglected	C
His result no further goes quot	C
	-
Much he lauds the education	G
Which has raised to lofty station	G
Men whose powers of calculation	G
Calculation s self defied	C
How the learned fool would wonder	F
Were he now to see his blunder	F
When he put his reason under	F
The control of worldly Pride	C
	-
Thus I muttered very seedy	C
Husky was my throat and reedy	C
And no wonder for indeed I	D
Now had caught a dreadful cold	C
Thickest fog had settled slowly	C
Round the candle burning lowly	C
Round the fire where melancholy	C
Traced retreating hills of gold	C
	-
Still those papers lay before me	C
Problems made express to bore me	C
When a silent change came o er me	C
In my hard uneasy chair	H
Fire and fog and candle faded	C
Spectral forms the room invaded	C
Little creatures that paraded	C
On the problems lying there	H
	-
Fathers there of every college	I
Led the glorious ranks of knowledge	J
Men whose virtues all acknowledge	I
Levied the proctorial fines	C
There the modest Moderators	C
Set apart as arbitrators	C
Twixt contending calculators	C
Scrutinised the trembling lines	C
	-
All the costly apparatus	C
That is meant to elevate us	C
To the intellectual status	C
Necessary for degrees	C
College tutors private coaches	C
Line the Senate house approaches	C
If our Alma Mater dote she s	C
Taken care of well by these	C
	-
Much I doubted if the vision	G
Were the simple repetition	G
Of the statements of Commission	G
Strangely jumbled oddly placed	C
When an awful form ascended	C
And with cruel words defended	C
Those abuses that offended	C
My unsanctioned private taste	C
	-
Angular in form and feature	F
Unlike any earthly creature	F
She had properties to meet your	K
Eye whatever you might view	L
Hair of pens and skin of paper	F
Breath not breath but chemic vapour	F
Dress such dress as College Draper	F
Fashions with precision due	L
	-
Eyes of glass with optic axes	C
Twisting rays of light as flax is	C
Twisted while the Parallax is	C
Made to show the real size	C
Primary and secondary	F
Focal lines in planes contrary	F
Sum up all that's known to vary	F
In those dull unmeaning eyes	C
	-
Such the eyes through which all Nature	F
Seems reduced to meaner stature	F
If you had them you would hate your	F
Symbolising sense of sight	C
Seeing planets in their courses	C
Thick beset with arrowy quot forces quot	C
While the common eye no more sees	C
Than their mild and quiet light	C
	-
quot Son quot she said what could be queerer	F
Than thus t te t te to hear her	F
Talk in tones approaching nearer	F
To a saw's than aught beside	C
For the voice the spectre spoke in	M
Might be known by many a token	G
To proceed from metal broken	G
When acoustic tricks were tried	C
	-
Little pleased to hear the Siren	G
quot Own quot me thus with voice of iron	N
I had thoughts of just retiring	E
From a mother such a fright	C
quot No quot she said quot the time is pressing	E
So before I give my blessing	E
I ll excuse you from confessing	E
What you thought of me to night	C
	-
quot Powers quot she cried with hoarse devotion	G
quot Give my son the clearest notion	G
How to compass sure promotion	G
And take care of Number One	G
Let his college course be pleasant	C
Let him ever as at present	C
Seem to have read what he hasn't	C
And to do what can t be done	G
	-
Of the Philosophic Spirit	C
Richly may my son inherit	C
As for Poetry inter it	C
With the myths of other days	C
Cut the thing entirely lest yon	O
College Don should put the question	G
Why not stick to what you're best on	O
Mathematics always pays quot	C
	-
As the Hag was thus proceeding	E
To prescribe my course of reading	E
And as I was faintly pleading	E
Hardly knowing what to say	C
Suddenly my head inclining	E
I beheld a light form shining	E
And the withered beldam whining	E
Saw the same and slunk away	C
	-
Then the vision growing brighter	F
Seemed to make my garret lighter	F
As when noisome fogs of night are	F
Scattered by the rising sun	G
Nearer still it grew and nearer	F
Till my straining eyes caught clearer	F
Glimpses of a being dearer	F
Dearer still than Number One	G
	-
In that well remembered Vision	G
I was led to the decision	G
Still to hold in calm derision	G
Pedantry however draped	C
Since that artificial spectre	F
Proved a paltry sub collector	F
And had nothing to connect her	F
With the being whom she aped	C
	-
I could never finish telling	E
You of her that has her dwelling	E
Where those springs of truth are welling	E
Whence all streams of beauty run	G
She has taught me that creation	G
Bears the test of calculation	G
But that Man forgets his station	G
If he stops when that is done	G
	-
Is our algebra the measure	F
Of that unexhausted treasure	F
That affords the purest pleasure	F
Ever found when it is sought	C
Let us rather realising	E
The conclusions thence arising	E
Nature more than symbols prizing	E
Learn to worship as we ought	C
	-
Worship Yes what worship better	F
Than when free'd from every fetter	F
That the uninforming letter	F
Rivets on the tortured mind	C
Man with silent admiration	G
Sees the glories of Creation	G
And in holy contemplation	G
Leaves the learned crowd behind	C