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Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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Footnotes
The title is a quote from Frances Steerling
given during his address to an international
conference of Geometry teachers
Pythagoras refused to allow
any of his theories to be written
on paper but Euclid, born two hundred years
after Pythagoras, did so
and then some
Pythagoras refused to allow
any of his theories to be written
on paper but Euclid, born two hundred years
after Pythagoras, did so
and then some
The title quote was his introduction
to the recital of Ms. Millay's poem
The quote got the louder laugh
but the poem got a standing ovation.
and is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
The next Frances Steerling page is here
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