Fair Nature’s fresh and
blooming bower
is elder far than it appears.It took to breed a single flower
a thousand thousand thousand years.
Commentary by Brother Quark:
This understates the age of
the Earth; a mere three thousand years, when we know that it is twice as old as
that.
Commentary by N. Hellerstein:
This is about evolutionary
deep time. It understates the age of the
Earth; a mere billion years, when we know that it is 4.5 times as old as that.
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