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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reply to the Above, by F.W.F.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Te quoque vatem dicunt pastores.&quot;—VIRGIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O Maxwell, if by reason’s strength<br>And studying of Babbage,<br>You have transformed yourself at length<br>Into a mental cabbage;<br>And if I've proved myself a lark<br>At morn and blushing even,<br>By soaring like a music-spark<br>Thro’ sapphire fields of Heaven,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our diverse fates are now reversed<br>By strange metempsychosis,<br>Into a cabbage I have burst<br>And scorn poetic posies;<br>But you a lark with twinkling wings<br>O’er violet-banks are soaring;<br>Your voice the dewy rose-cloud rings<br>While Statics me are boring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet cabbage as I will—on earth<br>My roots I cannot anchor,<br>For at my mathematic birth<br>Was also born a canker!<br>It soon will gnaw my roots away-—<br>But when I weigh a chœnix<br>I’ll freely soar to realms of day<br>An emerald cabbage-Phœnix.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then talk not of the Poll to me,<br>I hate, detest, and scorn it;<br>I am as earnest as a bee,<br>But savage as a hornet.<br>And if they pluck me I will drown<br>Each pedant in a sonnet,<br>And of their pluckings make a crown<br>With golden plumes upon it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if my cabbage growth be slow<br>I'll try to be a carrot,<br>Or still remain a lark—but know<br>I'll not be Poll, or Parrot.<br>Then if I fall beneath the mark,<br>I’ll shout with accent savage,<br>&quot;It is a lark to be a lark,<br>’Tis green to be a cabbage&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Clerk+Maxwell">James Clerk Maxwell</a><div class=q>
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O Maxwell, if by reason’s strength
And studying of Babbage,
You have transformed yourself at length
Into a mental cabbage;
And if I've proved myself a lark
At morn and blushing even,
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