A secret art my soul requires to try,
If prayers can give me what the wars deny.
Three crowns distinguish'd here in order
do Present their objects to my knowing view.
Earth's crown, thus at my feet, I can disdain,
Which heavy is, and, at the best, but vain.
But now a crown of thorns I gladly greet,
Sharp is this crown, but not so sharp as sweet.
The crown of glory that I yonder see Is full of bliss and of eternity.
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This was the poem of a young. lonely boy. According to Joseph Kantz, Newton wrote a number of poems.
Isaac Newton, Charles Singer, Macmillan Co., New York, pg 21, copyright 1938. © Jason Kantz
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I know you mentioned the moon intentionally because of Isaac and how his laws of motion helps explained the moon's -- no, I am not going to take away, by . . . .
Yes, the moon was full and beautiful. I saw. Funny, you should mention it, because everytime I see the moon now I think about Isaac Newton -- EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Maybe some people think of the astronauts landing/walking on the moon -- not I. I think of the man, whose research made it possible to understand gravity and although we still can't DEFINE gravity's cause, at least we can defy it, and travel upwards . . . Isaac Newton.
Thanks Vickie!
Thanks for the stopping by, and I am waiting . . .
It surely was. It was heartrending and I wasn't particularly crazy about his mother for the way she handled things, or his grandfather, but then again, I wasn't in his mother's shoes, and he certainly loved his mother.
Marjani:
Thank you. Very perceptive.
Margieanne:
You are quite welcome, and it is my pleasure when it comes to Isaac Newton. He was ignored for the first half of his life, so terribly ignored and misunderstood.
Thanks all!
It is so? That's nice to know. Okay. Okay. Okay.
For a person who doesn't like his business out there you are really trying me, my Darling.