A straight liner is straight And a square mile is flat: But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.


The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton, Songs of Education, V, The Higher Mathematics (p. 97)


A straight liner is straight And a square mile is flat: But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.

A straight liner is straight And a square mile is flat: But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.

A straight liner is straight And a square mile is flat: But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.

A straight liner is straight And a square mile is flat: But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.