'Euclid' is lovely
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On 05/12/06, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
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> by Edna St.Vincent Millay
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> Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
> Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
> And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
> To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
> At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
> In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
> Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
> From dusty bondage into luminous air.
> O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
> When first the shaft into his vision shone
> Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
> Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
> Who, though once only and then but far away,
> Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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> Euclid
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> by Vachel Lindsay
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> 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 graybeards
> 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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