FEW things are perfect: we bear Eden's scar; Yet faulty man was godlike in design That day when first, with stick and length of twine, He drew me on the sand. Then what could mar His joy in that obedient mystic line; And then, computing with a zeal divine, He called ?? 3-point-14159 And knew my lovely circuit 2 ?? r! A circle is a happy thing to be -- Think how the joyful perpendicular Erected at the kiss of tangency Must meet my central point, my avatar! They talk of 14 points: yet only 3 Determine every circle: Q. E. D. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH by EDGAR LEE MASTERS NIGHTINGALES by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES SUMMER. THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS by ALEXANDER POPE DECORATION DAY PRAYER by ARTHUR ROSZELLE BEMIS JR. THE LADY UNKNOWN by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK THE SACRIFICE by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. WHO WILL LEARN FREEDOM? by EDWARD CARPENTER |