"As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes; The trembling surface by the motion stirr'd, Spreads in a second circle, then a third; Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance, Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance."
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Alexander Pope, Temple of Fame, line 436. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 119.
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