Classic Poem

Wisdom

There is a culture deeper far than books
And intellect beyond the ken of schools;
Wise sayings sometimes on the lips of fools
And knowledge stored in many quiet nooks.
A woman is as cultured as she looks,
Speaks, acts, and smiles, and merely bookish rules
She well may scorn as being clumsy tools
With which dull fishers file their rusty hooks.

This intellect that scholars prattle of
Why, what does it accomplish? Every age
Has witnessed through the perfidy of Love
How woman shows the folly of the sage.
Nay! then, Sir Oracle, reserve thy wit
Some woman's eyes shall give thee need of it.English