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Parallel , parallel , Parallel lines , Diverging , converging , diverging lines , Diverging , converging , diverging lines .
Spreading wider , or expansion , Drawing nearer , or contraction , Falling , rising , Slanting , crossing , Convex , concave , curved lines , Convex , concave , curved lines .
Here ' s a wave line , there ' s an angle , Here ' s a wave line , there ' s an angle ; An ellipsis , Or an oval , A semicircle half wa } r round , Then a circle wheeling round .
Several other geometrical poems , and a song on grammar are given , which are almost equal to this geometrical ode . We scarcely recognised our old friends , the tables of money , weights , and measures in their poetical dress ; yet we think it very unfair that the muses should have discarded wool weight , and hay and straw , seeing that cloth measure thus shares their favours :
Thus measure cloth exposed to sale-Two inches and a fourth a nail ; Four nails a quarter then regard , And take four quarters for a yard . A very striking song on the number of animals' feet , begins thus :
Nulliped , nulliped , an animal with no feet , Biped , biped , un animal with two feet , & . c . The Capitals of Europe are all done into such verse as this Edinburgh ' s the capital , The capital of Scotland ; It lies at the foot of Arthur ' s seat , Protected by the castle .
We greatly prefer our old infant songs , " Hi diddle diddle , The cat and the fiddle /'— " Hickory dickory dock / ' " Rub a dub , dub , three men in a tub , " &c , inasmuch as we prefer
open and unsophisticated nonsense with a good jingle , to miserably sophisticated nonsense without it . Our old favourites also do rhyme and go well to their tunes , which the new versions do not . To call surh wretched trash knowledge , is a groBB violation of the term .
J 48 Infant Education .