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Euclid

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(Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children)          Old Euclid drew a circle          On a sand-beach long ago.          He bounded and enclosed it          With angles thus and so.          His set of solemn greybeards          Nodded and argued much          Of arc and of circumference,          Diameter and such.          A silent child stood by them          From morning until noon          Because they drew such charming          Round pictures of the moon.

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