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From the Tower Room Looking East

OCTOBER 1966 E.C. BEER
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From the Tower Room Looking East
OCTOBER 1966 E.C. BEER

In ancient Hellas, scholars talked Of ethics and aesthetics, As they thro' halls of learning walked With fellow peripatetics.

Now from the perpendicular We frequently decline, And into chairs orbicular We pour the tired mind.

And thus it is Hellenic man More on his toes than off is, The product of the Dartmouth plan More sofa-ist than sophist.