May 18, 2011
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Goose

While man exclaims, ‘See all things for my use!’

‘See man for mine!’ replies a pampered goose.

    - Pope, An Essay on Man.

Pope’s On Criticism is 300 years old this month.

Dear e-server: please ditch the graphic backgrounds and consider some modern markup and typography. Setting poems inside <TABLE> tags is a little old-fashioned. Thanks.

In fact, why not make a nice big poem like this, safely in the public domain, an example for modern Web typography?