 | Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas |  |
5
THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Truest-hearted of early friends, that Eton
Long since gave to me,—Ah! 'tis all a life-time,—
With my faithfully festive auspication
Of Christmas merriment, this idle item.
Long since gave to me,—Ah! 'tis all a life-time,—
With my faithfully festive auspication
Of Christmas merriment, this idle item.
Plato truly believ'd his archetypal
Ides to possess the fourth dimension:
For since our solid is triple, but always
Its shade only double, solids as umbrae
Must lack equally one dimension also.
Could Plato have avoided or denied it?
Ides to possess the fourth dimension:
For since our solid is triple, but always
Its shade only double, solids as umbrae
Must lack equally one dimension also.
Could Plato have avoided or denied it?
So Saint Paul, when in argument opposing
To our earthly bodies bodies celestial,
Meant just those pretty Greek aforesaid abstracts
Of four Platonical divine dimensions.
To our earthly bodies bodies celestial,
Meant just those pretty Greek aforesaid abstracts
Of four Platonical divine dimensions.
If this be not a holy consolation
More than plumpudding and a turkey roasted,
Whereto you but address a third dimension,
Try it, pray, as a pill to aid digestion:
I can't find anything better to send you.
More than plumpudding and a turkey roasted,
Whereto you but address a third dimension,
Try it, pray, as a pill to aid digestion:
I can't find anything better to send you.
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