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Title: Our Profession and Other Poems
Author: Jared Barhite
Release Date: October 2, 2006 [EBook #19443]
Language: English
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OUR PROFESSION
AND
OTHER POEMS.
BY
JARED BARHITE,
Principal of Third Ward Grammar School,?Long Island City, N. Y.
PUBLISHED BY
WILLIAM E. BARHITE,
270 Freeman Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y.
1895.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.
PRESS OF?WEISEL, MEIER & WITTE,?109 NASSAU ST., N. Y.
PREFACE.
During the past quarter of a century, it has been a pleasant pastime for me to obey the dictates of my feelings and inscribe them upon paper.
The present volume is a collection of these vagrant pastimes, some of which have wandered far, while others have never before appeared to any eye save the writer's.
To call them home, introduce them to each other, and properly house them, seems a parental duty.
If in them there is a thought that shall inspire others of my profession to feel the dignity and responsibility of the calling, their publication will not have been in vain.
The intent being good, the fruit cannot be evil.
The Author.
DEDICATION.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, WHOSE DEVOTION, ENERGY, AND
PERSEVERANCE LED ME TO DRINK AT THE FOUNTAIN OF?KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH, UNTIL I SAW BEAUTY THEREIN,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
The true end of life is to elevate man?In body, in mind, and in spirit,?That here he may serve some beneficent plan,?Then a mansion in heaven inherit.
INDEX.
PAGE.
A Beacon Light 129
A Boy 81
A Lesson from Nature 189
All Things are Second-handed 212
Alone 140
Amityville 215
An Open Book 175
A Picture 200
Arbor Day Tribute 84
Artist Nature 119
Boding Snow 174
Buttercups and Daisies 87
Communion with Nature 96
Courage and Faith 26
Discontent 132
Drifting Away 158
Duty Done 42
Ere and at my Call 173
Evil Habits 56
Faces I Read 214
Fact versus Form 29
Fidelity 219
Finis 231
Fragments 127
Good Habits 53
Heartstrings 147
Important Moments 166
Incompetence 27
Indulgence 61
Interest 31
Invocation to the Muse 9
Kindred Spirits 160
Lake George, N. Y. 106
Liberty 154
Lies 145
Life's Emergencies 58
"Lo," The Departed 157
Love 142
Many 40
Maple at my Father's Door 115
Memory 130
Memory and Reason 32
Mind Awakened 71
Mirrors 39
Morning Flowers 118
Mountain Brook 99
Music 120
My Brother's Birthday 196
My Choice 76
My Mother's Love 192
My Room in Boyhood's Days 202
Nature's Child 105
Nature's Voice 204
Needs and Powers 19
Oceanus' Mirrors 116
On Brooklyn Bridge 183
Our Battlefield 49
Our Politics 134
Our Profession 11
Perhaps 165
Pious Pie Poem Puns 218
Poundridge, N. Y. 205
Rest 123
Retrospection 138
Robin Redbreast 110
Rye 95
School Days 162
Selfishness 137
Some Characters I Can't Admire 180
Some Characters I Much Adore 177
Soul Speaks to Soul 48
Strand Despair 60
Success 125
Sunset 135
Survival of the Fittest 66
The Dandelion 90
The Desirable Undefined 34
The Difference 67
The Evening before my Brother's Fifty-third Birthday 194
The Farmer 112
The Flowers I Love 91
The Fringed Gentian 89
The Future 170
The Goldenrod 86
The Hair 152
Their Life is what they Make It 185
The Lone Bird 187
The Morning Glory 94
The Ogre 72
The Old Farm 114
The Requirements of the Hour 80
The Rose 85
The Second Sunday in May 104
The Senses 44
The Stream's Story 102
The Teacher's Soliloquy 63
The Thrush 108
The Tree of State 82
The Unwritten Letter 210
The Voice 198
Tim 208
To a Mountain Brook 101
To My Daughter Blanche in Heaven 197
Trailing Arbutus 93
True Wealth 217
Twilight Hour 150
Who Knows? 149
Who Shall Judge? 169
INVOCATION TO THE MUSE.
Didactic muse Calliope,?Expand thy soothing silent wings,?Touch chords of measured harmony?Wherein the soul ecstatic sings,?Let language fraught with living truth?Find such expression by thy art,?As shall assist the guides of youth?To fire the soul and win the heart.
Remove the barriers which so long?Have held in thraldom many a mind,?Sing to the deaf a ransom-song,?Be eyes to those whose souls are blind;?Teach those who mould the plastic mind?To know that God hath never given?A mission weightier, more refined,?To angels round the courts of heaven,?Than that of training human minds?Committed unto human hands,?In which the spirit e'er survives?And through eternity expands.
Paint truthfully the living dead?Whose sensibilities were slain?By tyros, oft unskilled, unread,?In all the workings of the brain;?Whose concepts of the avenues?That reach the mind of tender youth,?Are labyrinths of tangled views?Devoid of art, science, and truth;?Touch but that chord of magic power?Which gives the soul augmented bliss,?And lifts it for the present hour?Above the world's base selfishness;?Then let the search-light of the soul?Illumine every page that's read,?Until an animated whole?Shall supersede the living dead.
Then, then shall dawn the golden day?When Ignorance shall shamed-faced fly?Before the potent living ray?Of mind, touched by effulgency?That pours its light in vital force,?Upon the mind of plastic youth,?And leads it gently to the source?Of light and scientific truth.
OUR PROFESSION.
There's an art in our profession,?Which cannot be wholly learned?From all books in our possession,?Though their leaves be deftly turned?Till the mind