The classic education no longer available to students is showing in the voids of my mind. |
I must confess an arrogance I'd not been thus aware So steeped am I in modern prose classics have not a chair Of several thousand books I've read and hundreds that I've heard The classic writers I have tried ignorance was uncured I've read Wells and Jules Verne as every school boy should But Homer's epic works of verse caused my glazed eyes to hood James Cooper's Leather Stockings I have only "read" in film Daniel Day of Hawkeye fame elevates the human phylum The classic education of our not too distant past Was phasing out before my time and thus the die was cast My freshman year, the first allowed then French as an elective The death knell of the Latin Club it's peal was so reflexive The modern mind, so occupied no room for contemplation So much our labor saving stuff stops past investigation A casual choice of aural food let's try Count Monte C I'm so surprised the modern mind that Dumas had to be I listen, humbled in my turn I think of my contempt Authors not on bestsellers lists who's copyright's exempt They form the base of what we read they're great in any light I've been remiss but I can learn it's not too late to fight Richard Higley © Aug 2011 |