Redburn: Or the Schoolmaster of a Morning (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Redburn: Or the Schoolmaster of a Morning

Canto I.

Close where Tioga's hill-side fires
Smoke, dull, above Owego's spires,
On a sweet stream whose silvery tide
Swells the broad Susquehannah's pride,
So near the road that passers-by
Hear the loud laugh ring merrily,
Embrown'd and rotted by long years,
Its front a district school-house rears:
Here congregate a healthy flock,
Stout scions of a sturdy stock!
Here the thwack'd dullard rubs his sconce,
Here, ferule-smitten, roars the dunce,
Here boy and girl sit side by side,
And gallantry gives way to pride

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