== Among School Children ==
by William Butler Yeats
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** I **

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;\\
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;\\
The children learn to cipher and to sing,\\
To study reading-books and histories,\\
To cut and sew, be neat in everything\\
In the best modern way — the children’s eyes\\
In momentary wonder stare upon\\
A **[[tal:start|sixty-year-old]]** smiling public man.
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[[http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.co.uk/2004/01/among-school-children-william-butler.html|Full poem]]