SLSL Intro, "The Wandering Scholars"

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    And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book--
               Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!
                 The story of the Oxford scholar poor,
               Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,
                 Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door,
                   One summer morn forsook
               His friends, and went to learn the gypsy lore,
                 And roamed the world with that wild brotherhood,
                 And came, as most men deemed, to little good,
               But came to Oxford and his friends no more.

from: "The Scholar Gypsy" by Mathew Arnold

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