Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STATISTICS PROVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Statistics prove' so many things
Last Line: How much statistics cannot prove !
Subject(s): Statistics & Statisticians


"Statistics prove" so many things:
The size of towns, the height of kings.
The age of children in the schools,
The skull development of fools.
The salaries that parsons get.
The number of abodes to let,
The wealth of lucky millionaires,
The price of hens and mining shares ''"
All things below and things above.
It seems to me, "statistics prove."

But no! statistics never yet
Appraised a single violet.
Measured the glances of an eye,
Or probed the sorrow of a sigh.
Statistics never caught the gleam
That dances on a meadow stream.
Or weighed the anthem of a bird
In forest aisles devoutly heard.
Statistics never proved a soul.
In high or low, in part or whole,
Sin, beauty, passion, honor, love ''"
How much statistics cannot prove!





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