Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
I am a Ptolemaic
There was a star danced, and under that I was born
-Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, II.i.349
This little world isn’t much, but it’s what we’ve got
Our Narnia, our Middle-Earth; it’s green
It’s green and blue and round, an almost-sphere
Fitted with all the ancient conveniences
Let the stars encircle us as a crown
And who will say that it is not so?
For we are commanded to grow this garden
By the light of the sun, and of faith and love
As Shakespeare might have said, this blessed plot -
This little world isn’t much, but it’s what we’ve got
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