Chapter 23 No.23

(Sir Isaac Newton writes to Mrs. Vincent at Woolthorpe.)

Your letter, on my eightieth birthday, wakes

Memories, like violets, in this London gloom.

You have never failed, for more than three-score years

To send these annual greetings from the haunts

Where you and I were boy and girl together.

A day must come-it cannot now be far-