. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. minative among them could distinguish the scarlet colourof the mail-guards liveries, by the sound of their horns : but therevere others, so acute their faculty ! that they could tell the very THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER. mr features and complexion of their relatives and familiars, by the meretone of tlieir voices. I was much gratified with this ex[)lanntion ; forI confe-^s, hithtrto, I was always extremely puzzled by that narrativein the Taller, of a young gentlemans behaviour after the operation ofcouching, and especially at the wonderful prom
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. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. minative among them could distinguish the scarlet colourof the mail-guards liveries, by the sound of their horns : but therevere others, so acute their faculty ! that they could tell the very THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER. mr features and complexion of their relatives and familiars, by the meretone of tlieir voices. I was much gratified with this ex[)lanntion ; forI confe-^s, hithtrto, I was always extremely puzzled by that narrativein the Taller, of a young gentlemans behaviour after the operation ofcouching, and especially at the wonderful promptness with which hedistinguished liis father from his mother, —his mistress from her maid.But it appears that the blind are not so blind as they have been es-teemed in the vulgar notion. What they cannot get one way theyobtain in another : they, in fact, realise what the author of Hudibrashas ridiculed as a fiction, for they set up Communities of sense^To chop and change intelligences.As Rosicrucian VirtuosisCan see with ears—and hear with noses, . Spring and Fall. THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER. Alack ! tis melancholy theme to thinkHow Learning doth in rugged states abide, And, like her ba-hful owl, obscurely blinkIn pensive glooms and corners, scarcely spied ;Not, as in Founders Halls and domes of pride, Served with grave homage, like a tragic queen, But with one lonely priest compelld to hide, In midst of fogg moors and mosses preen, In that clay cabbm hight the College of Kilreen ! Sfia THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER. II. This Co!iege looketh South and West alsoe, Because it hath a cast in windows twain ;Crazy and crackd they be, and wind doth blowThorough transparent holes in every pane, Which Dan, with many paines, makes whtile a;>aiaWith nether garments, which his thrift doth teach1 To stand for glass, like pronouns, and when rainStormeth, he puts, once more unto the breach, Outside and in, though broke, yet so he mendeth each. III. And in the midst a little door there is, Whereon a board