<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book Of Numbers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">These cheque book eyes that peer on out<br>With fifty four long years in train<br>Would beg the question, steeped in doubt: <br>‘Are balances brought home the same? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are books of columns kept somewhere<br>With costs and profits to each name, <br>Does some laborious clerk inscribe<br>Each fall from grace, each cry of pain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And is there some huge reference book, <br>A million pages long that gives<br>A code to score each passing thought, <br>To digitise each man that lives? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A ten for love that long survives<br>Its primal urge, a minus four<br>For each divorce, and minus three<br>For every child brought down, of course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how would grief be costed out? <br>A point for every tear or sigh, <br>Or nine to cover hearts of lead<br>That freeze in pain, but cannot cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For hope, ambition, faith and need<br>Are these the same for every man, <br>Or do the rich regain the creed<br>While poor men spill their lives like sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These cheque book eyes that peer on out<br>With fifty four long years in train<br>Appraise the wreckage of my life: <br>‘Are balances brought home the same? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">17 February 1999</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365895" data-title="The Book Of Numbers de David Lewis Paget" data-description="These cheque book eyes that peer on out With fifty four long years in train Would beg the question, steeped in doubt: ‘Are balances brought home the same? ’ Are books of columns kept somewhere With costs and profits to each name, Does some ..."></div> </div> </div>

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