How sweet it is thy props, to do!
And then to draw from them deductions!
There’s but one thing still better—Fluxions!
Geometry! what mortal hand
Can e’er untie the knotted band
That knits me to thy propositions,
Thy postulates and definitions!
Strong too’s the cord which fastens me
To Statics and Geology!
Still stronger those which me affiance