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First Line: Few things are perfect: we bear eden's scar
Last Line: Determine every circle: q. E. D.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Mathematics


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.





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