For more than thirty years we hadn't met. br I remembered the bright query of your face, br That single-minded look,intense and stern, br Yet most important -how could I forget?- br Was what your taught me inadvertantly br (tutored by books and parents, even more br By my own awe at what was yet to learn): br The finest intellect can be a bore. br br At this, perhaps our final interview, br Still luminous with your passion to instruct, br You speak to that recalcitrant pupil who br Inhaled the chalk-dust of your rhetoric. br I nod, I sip my wine, I praise your view, br Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you.