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Yes, I really stretched for that one!
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It works
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In addition to Hrossa's comment, I excerpted the first comment, because it shows the evolution of the wording from "never" to "ne'er". It was this
evolution that inspired Hrossa's couplet. I am tickled by Hrossa's ending, "... it solve" ! Well done!
"True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. "
— Alexander Pope
sonofcarc
March 14, 2012, 8:07 pm
"Never" is contracted to "ne'er" in the original.
Hrossa
October 8, 2022, 11:12 am
Ne'er the solution for this did evolve, 'til "Pope" evoked thought that "ne'er" might it solve.
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Thanks kb83 I don't remember this, but I do enjoy Pope quotes.
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Another self-promotion:
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. "
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Kb83 on 2/20/25:
A philosopher usually abstruse,
Had a maxim not hard to deduce
Three o'clock's clearly
Too late or too early
To undertake something of use.
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More self-promotion
"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
— Charles H. Mayo
kb83
September 4, 2024, 4:35 pm
A Surgeon named Charlie H. Mayo,
Said don't worry about what you may owe,
For longevity's sake
Give your organs a break,
And you can rely on my say-so.
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Mayo / may owe -- nice.Comment
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