Frank Evans wrote:
>
>As guidance for Tony Moss's suggestion of verse couplets for sundials we
>could do worse than look at Hilaire Belloc's brief piece: I am a
>sundial and I make a botch / Of what is done much better by a watch.
>
>Two lines, right number of words. Yes, we've all heard it but it would
>take some beating.
>--
A lesser known ones of HB's which might amuse any who haven't heard it:
"I am a Sundial, ordinary words
Cannot convey my thoughts on birds!"
You're right Frank - there may be not much left to say after such masters
of the couplet
but the haiku format seems very promising!
Tony M.
