I know a pool, where shadows fall / From fir-trees, melancholy tall, / That dream and quiver round the rim, / And in the molten centre swim, / Where taper tops do all unite / Bemirrored in its silvern light.
It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you.
As a railwayman put it to me: When I saw chums of mine took their families down there by car, I could see the writing on the wall. We all had free passes, yet they got the car out!
We remind the reader that the barycentric subdivision sd(P) of a preordered set P is the poset of chains in P, ordered by inclusion.