The eye cannot see what the brain knoweth not,
And nor can it be when the brain knoweth naught.
To know what you'll be with a brain forever lost,
Extend the inner seeing to a being never lost.
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The old English proverb revisited…


Early to bed and early to rise 
Makes one healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Better be said, “To bed on time,”
Rating “late” as careless crime.

One man's early is another man's late;
Writ in stone, circadian fate.
Plants no less with clocks are blessed,
“Touch-me-not” example best.*

“Sensitive plant” this truth receives,
Greeting night with folded leaves.
Humans, too, could wisdom show,
By their clocks internal flow.

Promptly to bed and promptly to rise;
That’s the way to harmonize.
Trust the clock that guides your eyes,
Inner process ever wise.


*Mimosa pudica



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Just a longer version of what came before… And the best part is being able to get right to it without an introduction! (For anyone feeling shortchanged, the previous preamble should serve.)


Alive and blessed with math-like skills,
“As well as” to “in addition” adds “to.”
In cases such, a comma it takes
If starting sentence or lesser unto.

Example quick to make this clear:
“As well as eating lemon pie,
He drank six beers while sitting there,
And all did laugh, as well as sigh.”

This second case of “in addition to,”
Its import slight, a mere aside,
Requires a comma since lesser unto,
A status the writer would thus confide.

Comparing directly, simply, in prose,
“As well as” a comma doth never require.
But extras offered, unneeded they be,
Must dress in commas as central attire…

Since parenthetical, clearly apart,
And nonessential to meaning like this:
“All gentlemen here, as well as there,
Should look to God for lasting bliss.”

“As well as,” thus, may sum like “and”
But unlike “and” can't rightly star
A compound subject, nouns combined:
Put “this as well as that” with “are.”

Instead a singular verb is vet--
One caution more to add to store.
For welcome summary one would wish,
Forget the clues and rules obscure:

As well as weighing sameness state,
“As well as” joins up parts in pairs.
A crown of commas shall it rate
In nonessential-clause affairs.

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