Living
You Call This Education, Do You Not
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
You call this education, do you not?
Why, 'tis the forced march of a herd of bullocks
Before a shouting drover. The glad van
Move on at ease, and pause a while to snatch
A passing morsel from the dewy green-sward,
While all the blows, the oaths, the indignation,
Fall on the croupe of the ill-fated laggard
That cripples in the rear.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “You Call This Education, Do You Not.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/197/.
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Scott, Walter. “You Call This Education, Do You Not.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/197/.
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