The Examiner

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the examination procedure is as follows this is a two-hour examination right only in alternate lines right only on one side of the page both questions and answers will be collected any questions [Music] again [Music] [Music] [Music] the routine trickery of the examination baffles these hot and discouraged youth driven by they know not what external pressure they pour their hated self analysis through the nib of confession onto the accusatory page [Music] [Music] [Music] I who have plotted their immediate downfall I who have plotted their immediate downfall I who have plotted their immediate downfall I who have plotted their immediate downfall I have plotted their immediate downfall I am entrusted with the divine categories a B C D and the hell of E [Music] the parade of cries and the back door of pass [Music] in the tight silence standing by a green grass window watching the fertile earth graduate its sons with more compassion not commanding the shape of stem and stamen bringing the trees to pass by shift of sunlight an increase of rain for each seed the whole soil for the inner life the environment receptive and contributory I shudder at the narrow frames of our textbook schools in which we plant our so various seedlings each brick walled barracks cut into numbered rooms black boarded ties the venturing chute to the master stick the screwed escrows of lads and girls subdued in the shade of an adult their acid subsoil shape the new to the old in the ashen garden shall we open the whole skylight of thought to these tiptoe minds bring them our frontier worlds and the boundless uplands of art for their field of growth [Music] or shall we pass them the chosen poems with the footnotes ring the bell on their thoughts period their play make laws for averages and plans for means print one history book for a whole province and let 90,000 reach page 10 by Tuesday [Music] [Music] as I gather the inadequate paper evidence I hear across the neat campus lon the professional mowers drone clipping the inch high green [Music] [Music]