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A Meditation Upon Matters of Faith
And the Worthy and Diligent Study
of the Arcana of Mathematics
as Recommended to Industrious and Thoughtful
Young Men and Women
For Kyle,
Who is Enduring His First College Maths
Our Saviour never said “Now solve for X”
Such is not written in any sacred tex(t)
Saints Paul and Barnabas on journeys Psidian
Did not refer to topics Euclidian
The Corinthians were divided only by factions
Never were they divided by fractions
Good St. Paul wanted all to comprehend
The truth, and not some subtle subtrahend
But still…
But still (to me it is a great frustration)
Numbers are how we measure Creation
With them we plant the Garden that is earth
Building it up with word and work and worth
So that we feed and clothe and mend and tend
With crop rows plowed, panels welded, cattle penned
Airplanes launched, fires put out, and light bulbs lit
Messages sent – there is no end of it!
So brew yourself a cup of coffee
Find your Euclid and dust it off(y)
Work those angles on your protractor
Add, subtract, calculate, and factor
Apply yourself most assiduously
Soon you’ll be an engineer, you’ll see!
Admired by all, a man of great knowledge –
And it began in community college
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