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My father was a scholar and knew Greek	A
When I was five years old I asked him once	B
What do you read about	C
The siege of Troy	D
What is a siege and what is Troy	D
Whereat	C
He piled up chairs and tables for a town	E
Set me a top for Priam called our cat	C
Helen enticed away from home he said	C
By wicked Paris who couched somewhere close	F
Under the footstool being cowardly	G
But whom since she was worth the pains poor puss	H
Towzer and Tray our dogs the Atreidai sought	C
By taking Troy to get possession of	I
Always when great Achilles ceased to sulk	J
My pony in the stable forth would prance	K
And put to flight Hector our page boy's self	L
This taught me who was who and what was what	C
So far I rightly understood the case	M
At five years old a huge delight it proved	C
And still proves thanks to that insructor sage	N
My Father who knew better than turn straight	C
Learning's full flare on weak eyed ignorance	B
Or worse yet leave weak eyes to grow sand blind	C
Content with darkness and vacuity	C
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It happened two or three years afterward	C
That I and playmates playing at Troy' Siege	O
My Father came upon our make believe	P
How would you like to read yourself the tale	Q
Properly told of which I gave you first	C
Merely such notion as a boy could bear	R
Pope now would give you the precise account	C
Of what some day by dint of scholarship	S
You'll hear who knows from Homer' very mouth	T
Learn Greek by all means read the Blind Old Man	U
Sweetest of Singers' tuphlos which means 'blind '	-
Hedistos which means 'sweetest ' Time enough	V
Try anyhow to master him some day	C
Until when take what serves for substitute	C
Read Pope by all means	W
So I ran through Pope	X
Enjoyed the tale what history so true	Y
Also attacked my Primer duly drudged	C
Grew fitter thus for what was promised next	C
The very thing itself the actual words	Z
When I could turn say Buttmann to account	C
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Time passed I ripened somewhat one fine day	C
Quite ready for the Iliad nothing less	A2
There's Heine where the big books block the shelf	L
Don't skip a word thumb well the Lexicon	B2
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I thumbed well and skipped nowise till I learned	C
Who was who what was what from Homer's tongue	C2
And there an end of learning Had you asked	C
The all accomplished scholar twelve years old	C
Who was it wrote the Iliad what a laugh	D2
Why Homer all the world knows of his life	E2
Doubtless some facts exist it's everywhere	R
We have not settled though his place of birth	F2
He begged for certain and was blind beside	C
Seven cities claimed him Scio with best right	C
Thinks Byron What he wrote Those Hymns we have	G2
Then there's the 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice '	-
That's all unless they dig 'Margites' up	H2
I'd like that nothing more remains to know	I2
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Thus did youth spend a comfortable time	J2
Until What's this the Germans say in fact	C
That Wolf found out first It's unpleasant work	K2
Their chop and change unsettling one's belief	L2
All the same where we live we learn that's sure	M2
So I bent brow o'er Prolegomena	I2
And after Wolf a dozen of his like	N2
Proved there was never any Troy at all	O2
Neither Besiegers nor Besieged nay worse	P2
No actual Homer no authentic text	C
No warrant for the fiction I as fact	C
Had treasured in my heart and soul so long	Q2
Ay mark you and as fact held still still hold	C
Spite of new knowledge in my heart of hearts	R2
And soul of souls fact's essence freed and fixed	C
From accidental fancy's guardian sheath	S2
Assuredly thenceforward thank my stars	T2
However it got there deprive who could	C
Wring from the shrine my precious tenantry	M2
Helen Ulysses Hector and his Spouse	U2
Achilles and his Friend though Wolf ah Wolf	V2
Why must he needs come doubting spoil a dream	W2
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But then No dream's worth waking Browning says	X2
And here's the reason why I tell thus much	Y2
I now mature man you anticipate	C
May blame my Father justifiably	G
For letting me dream out my nonage thus	Z2
And only by such slow and sure degrees	A3
Permitting me to sift the grain from chaff	D2
Get truth and falsehood known and named as such	Y2
Why did he ever let me dream at all	O2
Not bid me taste the story in its strength	B3
Suppose my childhood was scarce qualified	C
To rightly understand mythology	G
Silence at least was in his power to keep	C3
I might have somehow correspondingly	G
Well who knows by what method gained my gains	D3
Been taught by forthrights not meanderings	D3
My aim should be to loathe like Peleus' son	I2
A lie as Hell's Gate love my wedded wife	E2
Like Hector and so on with all the rest	C
Could not I have excogitated this	D3
Without believing such man really were	M2
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That is he might have put into my hand	C
The Ethics In translation if you please	D3
Exact no pretty lying that improves	D3
To suit the modern taste no more no less	D3
The Ethics 'tis a treatise I find hard	C
To read aright now that my hair is gray	M2
And I can manage the original	E3
At five years old how ill had fared its leaves	D3
Now growing double o'er the Stagirite	C
At least I soil no page with bread and milk	F3
Nor crumple dogs ear and deface boys' way	M2

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