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А. Ю. Енбекова: к вящей славе числа пи // 19 марта 2008, 00:28

A SONG AGAINST CIRCLES
The circle is a thing of cold perfection.
Given the chance, a circle will go far,
But not in any definite direction,
And never more or less than 2pr.
Its impulses are never quite wholehearted.
It starts, but like a traveller illprepared,
It soon comes back again to where it started,
Having enclosed a space for pr^2
R. P. Lister, The New Yorker Magazine, 1961.