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cartwheels or, if you like, arid numbers
 

give a pass to cartwheels, a something of —
(hear)   ₁   something outside of all that, a something of   ₂
which nothing could be either said or known;
 
a something of the form x [ idea ]   ₃
a number or a something akin to a number   ₄
a something of three (or if you like, of n) dimensions.
 
Is there anything   ₅   of more (a something) moment than any- traiture of   ₆
a something enigmatical,
a something of a disagreement, or of a double character in the expression.
 
contradiction   ₇   we strive to extract from it,
even when seemingly most arid,
a something of refreshing moisture.
 
Lastly, in all his doings, our Cricket is, confessedly, a pilferer.   ₈
 
 

sources, their respective details at the more’s

  1. “and that even the very stone that I see a man breaking on the road, to give a pass to cartwheels, has a something of poetry in it when looked at geologically — (hear), — a look of vast antiquity...”
    ex “Dr. Vaughan on Geology and the Bible,” in The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review (London; January 1847) / more
  2. ex Robert Pickett, his review of T. S. Stribling’s “Fombombo” (1923), in The Centurion (November 1923) / more
  3. Jonathan Francis Bennett, Locke, Berkeley, Hume : Central Themes (1971) / more
  4. Archibald Sandeman, his Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity : An Elementary Treatise on Algebra and its Groundwork Arithmetic (Cambridge, 1868) / more
  5. somewhere in Mind (1937) / more
  6. courtesy of an OCR cross-column misread, involving reviews of A Joy Forever, Munera Pulveris, &c. by John Ruskin, and (in adjoining column) A Quaker Love Story and Other Poems by Maria W. Jones, in The University (Chicago; 16 January 1886) / more
  7. Madame de Beaupré, by Mrs. C. Jenkin (New York, 1869) / more
  8. Episodes of Insect Life by Acheta Domestica, M. E. S. (New-York, 1852) / more
     

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