[New-Poetry] Alexander's text

[Skip Fox]

Loveliest of Trees

 

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom upon the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

 

Now of my threescore years and ten

            Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score

It only leaves me fifty more.

 

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodland I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

 

                                    --A.E. Houseman

 

 Bob, 

 

I know its not profoundly mathematical (like calculating the square root of
minus impossible one, or delineating the differentials between the definite
and the indefinite, like you mathematical types are always up to), but it
does its ciphering, as they say. :-)

 

skip

 

 

            

So when yah gonna teach 'em some mathematical poetry, Skip?

Just kidding, mostly.  

Keep up the good work, Bob

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