04-04-2012, 02:59 AM
He himself said,
he was not master of the school--
(though he had apparent charge)
He acted as a headmaster would act.
No doubt of that--
perhaps it was in his deeds.
Through that fall semester
others made for him claims,
but he was silent about what was said;
and he was ever around-- appearing
for special events on special days;
He said and quietly so, “Praesopitus says.”
One day he whom we called Praesopitus
called fortth all students to Meredith Hall.
When they had settled down, he said.
"All will have recess one day a week.
We’ll sup at 6 with wine and fellowship.
We'll be kind to children and
watch them play. We will visit
the imprisoned, give to beggers drink,
feed the hungry, clothe those naked and cold."
Was the headmaster a Praesopitus?
We know him truly as headmaster,
and only problematically as a Praesopitus.
Then he by that name Praesopitus
at a special supper surprised all attending
by calling for the demolition of the school—
all the buildings and the grounds,
all upon which the students depended.
Questions came—
no satisfactory answers were given.
Departed they, the students away,
from the man called Praesopitus.
Traveled back to their homes,
reunions with friends.
But unbeknown to faculty and students,
Praesopitus, in a generous scheme
of reorganization, had arranged for
a new, altogether superior campus
to be built a distance away.
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he was not master of the school--
(though he had apparent charge)
He acted as a headmaster would act.
No doubt of that--
perhaps it was in his deeds.
Through that fall semester
others made for him claims,
but he was silent about what was said;
and he was ever around-- appearing
for special events on special days;
He said and quietly so, “Praesopitus says.”
One day he whom we called Praesopitus
called fortth all students to Meredith Hall.
When they had settled down, he said.
"All will have recess one day a week.
We’ll sup at 6 with wine and fellowship.
We'll be kind to children and
watch them play. We will visit
the imprisoned, give to beggers drink,
feed the hungry, clothe those naked and cold."
Was the headmaster a Praesopitus?
We know him truly as headmaster,
and only problematically as a Praesopitus.
Then he by that name Praesopitus
at a special supper surprised all attending
by calling for the demolition of the school—
all the buildings and the grounds,
all upon which the students depended.
Questions came—
no satisfactory answers were given.
Departed they, the students away,
from the man called Praesopitus.
Traveled back to their homes,
reunions with friends.
But unbeknown to faculty and students,
Praesopitus, in a generous scheme
of reorganization, had arranged for
a new, altogether superior campus
to be built a distance away.
v