"Within the Boy's aspiring brain
For Study still there lies a craving,
And what is won against the grain
Is never really worth the having;
This boasted Categorical
Imperative is clearly vicious,--
Pastors and masters, one and all,
Must ascertain their pupils' wishes!"

And now those simple human Boys,--
All, to a boy, for Culture yearning,--
No pedagogues with idle noise
Impede upon the path of Learning:--
Released from books and teachers both,
No intellectual pastures feed 'em;
And, if they lose in mental growth,
Think how they gain in moral freedom!

HINTS FOR THE TRANSACTION OF PUBLIC BUSINESS

_Of a Cheerful Hope_.

Whene'er you do to Meetings go, as many such there be
(And few and far those persons are who home return to tea),
Then take with you this principle, to cheer you on your way--
The less there is to talk about, the more there is to say.

_Of an Exordium_.

Consult your hearers' happiness, and state for their relief
That you'll avoid prolixity and study to be brief:
For if you can't be brief at once, 'twill comfort them to know
That you'll arrive at brevity in half an hour or so.

_Of Obedience to Rule_.

Should e'er the Chairman censure you, as Chairmen oft will do,
And tell you that you miss the point, and bid you keep thereto,
(Though points are things, by Euclid's law, that always must be
missed--
They have no parts or magnitude, and therefore don't exist)--
Obey at once the Chairman's hest (because, as you're aware,
It is a most improper thing to argue with the Chair),
Accept his ruling patiently, without superfluous fuss,
And state the things you _might_ have said--unless he'd ruled it thus.

_Of a Peroration_.

And when you've spent your arguments yet somehow still go on
(It shows a want of enterprise to stop because you've done),
Don't search about for topics new or vex your weary brain,
But take what someone else has said and say it all again.

_Of Impartiality_.

And when at last your speech is o'er, be careful if you can
That none may hint--a horrid charge--that you're a Party Man:
So speak for this and speak for that as blithely as you may,
But keep your mental balance true, and