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Random poem: Poems (Osgood)/The Child Playing with a Watch
THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH.
Art thou playing with Time in thy sweet baby-glee? Will he pause on his pinions to frolic with thee? Oh! show him those shadowless, innocent eyes, That smile of bewilder'd and beaming surprise; Let him look on that cheek where thy rich hair reposes Where dimples are playing "bopeep" with the roses; His wrinkled brow press with light kisses and warm, And clasp his rough neck with thy soft wreathing arm. Perhaps thy bewitching and infantine sweetness May win him, for once, to delay in his fleetness; To pause, ere he rifle, relentless in flight, A blossom so glowing of bloom and of light. Then, then would I keep thee, my beautiful child, With thy blue eyes unshadow'd, thy blush undefiled; With thy innocence only to guard thee from ill, In life's sunny dawning, a lily-bud still! Laugh on! my own Ellen! that voice, which to me Gives a warning so solemn, makes music for thee; And while I at those sounds feel the idler's annoy, Thou hear'st but the tick of the pretty gold toy; Thou seest but a smile on the brow of the churl, May his frown never awe thee, my own baby-girl. And oh! may his step, as he wanders with thee, Light and soft as thine own little fairy-tread be! While still in all seasons, in storms and fair weather, May Time and my Ellen be playmates together.
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Works
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Thoughts
[edit]Some random and debatable thoughts of mine[1], if you've got time to lose[2].
- Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread without reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary[3], and we can go much faster without it.[4].
- We should not focus on notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative[6]. I personally choose the works I do because why not[7].
- Every revert should be explained. And, in general, every correction should be explained. If you don't tell new users how they made a mistake, they're likely to repeat it.
- For technical stuff, the cache is the god and the devil. It is the cause[8] or the solution[9] of most problems.
- We have a problem with documentation. No one actively takes care of the help pages[10]. The /doc subpages of templates are in some cases good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that doesn't either[11]. Some templates are in categories that make them hard to find[12]. I am neither the first, nor the second, and not the third either to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.
- Everyone makes mistakes. Not saying it's inevitable; merely that we should at all times expect that we're maybe going to make one, and prevent it.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
- ↑ and you probably do, if you landed here
- ↑ e.g. copying in the previous/next fields names already written in the TOC
- ↑ it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
- ↑ though obscure doesn't mean bad, and the best I did were quite obscure
- ↑ notability also has the issue that it's when we duplicate most the work of others, as for instance PG has most famous texts, but likelily not obscure collections of poetry[5] by authors of whom the work is the only trace
- ↑ and maybe an unreasonable liking of running gags. Can't tell me the 147 authors were notable, or that a lot of people care for them
- ↑ Notably for: scripting, scripts, you're looking for bugs that don't exist anymore; anything which relies on search-based page generators, with a wide range of consequences; images
- ↑ less often than it is the cause, sadly; but often useful for optimisation
- ↑ and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
- ↑ and is sometimes a bit unclear in the distinction between subcategories
- ↑ e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
Stuff
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![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg/135px-Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg)
This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]). -
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif/247px-Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif)
Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2]. -
Sundogs are weird too, but they're pretty, -
though not in the same ways as art can be. -
Clouds can be pretty too, -
as can the sea, -
though snow is even more, -
but space is much, -
much, -
much, -
much more beautiful than any of these. -
Oh, and also, I like cellular automata, -
and have made a few myself (and a simulator). -
![Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more![3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/HOWARD%281828-33%29_Shakspeare%2C_Henry_V%2C_vol3%2C_p199.jpg/266px-HOWARD%281828-33%29_Shakspeare%2C_Henry_V%2C_vol3%2C_p199.jpg)
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![I am a janitor[4][5] since december 2024, for the better or for the worse[7]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Wikisource_Administrator.svg/172px-Wikisource_Administrator.svg.png)
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See this fence? If you don't know why it's here, don't touch it -
(Takes too much time from proofreading)
![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](/wiki/File:Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg)
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](/wiki/File:Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif)
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![Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more![3]](/wiki/File:HOWARD(1828-33)_Shakspeare,_Henry_V,_vol3,_p199.jpg)
![I am a janitor[4][5] since december 2024, for the better or for the worse[7]](/wiki/File:Wikisource_Administrator.svg)
- ↑ it would have been a shame if something called mantis shrimp has not been original
- ↑ details on that sort of stuff at w:Leg mechanism
- ↑ I find that phrase sort of motivating
- ↑ and we should really remember that it's no more than a mop to scrub the floor
- ↑ Also, feel free to strike that out whenever it becomes false
- ↑ The bit of code that does that. It however only does it for enwp. Would have liked to have
this shitty hack
over here too. - ↑ I deleted the main page, for 30 seconds. And then forgot to reprotect it. Not the most glorious thing I did. More context, in my defence: I wanted to test API:delete, because I was closing a PD discussion that required batch deleting. So, I thought, "on which page can I practice safely without any consequences?" From the enwp village stocks, I'd kept the impression that deleting the main page had been made impossible[6]. I wasn't sure, so I looked at the menu at the main page, saw that there was no delete button, was satisfied that you couldn't delete it, and the rest is history.
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