[OT] Re: 2.7.1 annoying window thing

Rob Cozens rcozens at pon.net
Sun May 21 10:39:44 EDT 2006


Tom:

> PS: I love the J. Donne quote in your signature.

Thanks.  Here's the entire poem for all Donne lovers:


		The Triple Foole
		 by John Donne

I am two fooles, I know,
    For loving, and for saying so
      In whining Poetry;
But where’s that wiseman, that
             would not be I,
      If she would not deny?
Then as th’e earths inward narrow
               crooked lanes
Do purge sea waters fretfull salt
                away.
       I thought, if I could draw my
                paines,
Through rimes vexation, I should
                them allay,
Griefe brought to numbers cannot
                 be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
But when I have done so,
Some man, his art and voice to
                show,
       Doth Set and sing my paine,
And, by delighting many, frees
                againe
        Grief, which verse did restrain.
To Love, and Griefe tribute of verse
                 belongs,
But not of such as pleases when ’tis
                 read,
        Both are increased by such songs:
For both their triumphs so are
                 published,
And I, which was two fooles, do so
                 grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles
                bee.

Rob Cozens

"Any man's death diminishes me,
  because I am involved in Mankind."

	-- John Donne, Devotions 1624




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