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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR A PICTURE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight lines and circles, triangles and squares
Last Line: Inclusive number, and the circle squared.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits
First Line: Straight lines and circles, triangles and squares
Last Line: Inclusive number, and the circle squared.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits
Of the Madonna teaching the Divine Child geometry by figures drawn on the
sand (Merejkowski)
STRAIGHT lines and circles, triangles and squares,
With exact finger on the sand she draws,
Marking how each new truth from its own cause
Demonstrably arises, and prepares
Place for more truth to follow; so, she bares
The sacred and inevitable laws
Which are his nature and design, and awes
Him with his own perfection: the Child stares
Rapt at each new device, while gravely flows
The mighty theorem,—rapt into a fine
Ecstasy at the argument prepared,
And darkly now himself already knows
The union of dimension, ideal line,
Inclusive number, and the circle squared.
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