Verse of the Week:
So many of these weekly posts over the last five and a half years seem to have been triggered by stray quotations, or fragments. Someone discussing the new crop of students used the phrase ‘greener than grass’, and the section of brain which holds such things added ‘but full ripe’.
I was led back to a verse that fitted the subject splendidly. Indeed, the teachers among you may choose to remember ‘𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒆’, and use it in a scholarly, condescending way: Please share the post to those who may need it.
Knowing that, here, Chiron, son of Cronus and Philyra, is Kipling’s old Headmaster, Crom Price, is enough.
Thanks are due to Paleothea for permission to use the illustration.
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