Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, [from old catalog] illus · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 22
led: Who was it threw that apple and hit me?To finish this, however, with becoming gravity.Well state that Newton lingered there beneath the apple tree; With logarithmic tables he discovered that the speedAt which the apple fell was based on whence it fell —indeed.Had it dropped from the moon, well… … MAR Old Omar, in a Tent he had to live,Yet gave to Verse such Time as hecould give;Whereat the Critics rose andHurled at Him : The Stufif you write is only Tenta-tive. Yet Khayyam never worried over that —He kept his Troubles underneath his Hat Except such Times as when he worked them upInto an Apt…
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