SERIO-COMIC VERSE. 625 



Till their trappings, false though fair, 

 Mouldered off and left them bare, 

 Clustering close in blank despair, 



Nakedness, cold, and terror. 



Then, I said, " These haughty Schools 

 Boast that by their formal rules 

 They produce more learned fools 



Than could be well expected. 

 Learned fools they are indeed, 

 Learned in the books they read ; 

 Fools whene'er they come to need 



Wisdom, too long neglected. 



" Oh ! that men indeed were wise, 

 And would raise their purblind eyes 

 To the opening mysteries 



Scattered around them ever. 

 Truth should spring from sterile ground, 

 Beauty beam from all around, 

 Eight should then at last be found 



Joining what none may sever." 



A PROBLEM IN DYNAMICS. 



19th Feb. 1854. 



AN inextensible heavy chain 

 Lies on a smooth horizontal plane, 

 An impulsive force is applied at A, 

 Eequired the initial motion of K. 



Let ds be the infinitesimal link, 

 Of which for the present we've only to think ; 

 2 s 



