By those unpractised accents of young speech,
   Which he who is a father, thought to frame
To gentlest lore, such as the wisest teach;--
   Thou strike the lyre of mind! O grief and shame!

(P. B. Shelley, "To the Lord Chancellor," st. 7)

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