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Friday, August 1, 2025
A watch's supernumerary power
As in a watch's fine machine
Though many artful springs are seen,
The added movements which declare
How full the moon, how old the year,
Derive their secondary pow'r
From that which simply points the hour.
-- Matthew Prior
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