Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LESSONS, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH


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First Line: Remembering his schooldays / with their rotes and yammering expectations


Remembering his schooldays
With their rotes and yammering expectations,
Han Shan laughs contemptuously:

"How fine it would be," he declares,
"To have my old masters here
Walking with me this fine fall morning

Under tossing pines,
Without the dinning and drumming,
And with only the cold mountain wind

In their open mouths.
How I would examine them
In my hand-me-down clothes."


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