The older I get the more I appreciate Pope.
2009/5/18 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> Alexander Pope summed it up succinctly years ago:
>
> Pretty in amber to observe the forms
> Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
> The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
> But wonder how the devil they got there.
>
> Robin
>
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
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