<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507023" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Delights of Mathematics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems a hundred years or more<br>Since I, with note-book, ink and pen,<br>In cap and gown, first trod the floor<br>Which I have often trod since then;<br>Yet well do I remember when<br>With fifty other fond fanatics,<br>I sought delights beyond my ken,<br>The deep delights of Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew that two and two made four,<br>I felt that five times two were ten,<br>But, as for all profounder lore,<br>The robin redbreast or the wren,<br>The sparrow, whether cock or hen,<br>Knew quite as much about Quadratics,<br>Was less confused by x and n,<br>The deep delights of Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Asses' Bridge I passed not o'er,<br>I floundered in the noisome fen<br>Which lies behind it and before;<br>I wandered in the gloomy glen<br>Where Surds and Factors have their den.<br>But when I saw the pit of Statics,<br>I said Good-bye, Farewell, Amen!<br>The deep delights of Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Bejants! blessed, beardless men,<br>Who strive with Euclid in your attics,<br>For worlds I would not taste again<br>The deep delights of Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</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=507023" data-title="The Delights of Mathematics de Robert Fuller Murray" data-description="It seems a hundred years or more Since I, with note-book, ink and pen, In cap and gown, first trod the floor Which I have often trod since then; Yet well do I remember when With fifty other fond fanatics, I sought delights beyond my ken, The deep ..."></div> </div> </div>

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