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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 delights of Mathematics.
I knew that two and two made four, / I felt that five times two were ten, / But, as for all profounder lore, / The robin redbreast or the wren, / The sparrow, whether cock or hen, / Knew quite as much about Quadratics, / Was less confused by _x_ and _n_, / The deep delights of Mathematics.