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EUCLID by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY

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First Line: OLD EUCLID DREW A CIRCLE
Last Line: ROUND PICTURES OF THE MOON.
Subject(s): EUCLID (450-374 B.C.);

Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and of circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.



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