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 Rocking on a lazy billow
 With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
   Thou read more 
 Rocking on a lazy billow
 With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
   Thou art now wise.
    Wake the power within thee slumbering,
     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
       Sweet labour's prize. 
 Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in 
the green stillness of the country, where he read more 
 Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in 
the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart 
of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and 
feel the throbbing heart of man? 
 And with unwearied fingers drawing out
 The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.  
 And with unwearied fingers drawing out
 The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. 
 Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
 The fields his study, nature was his book.  
 Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
 The fields his study, nature was his book. 
 Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
 A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
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 Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
 A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
    A few swift years, and who can show
     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe? 
 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men.  
 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men. 
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something read more
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship read more
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it
 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school.  
 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school.