Serious Limericks 2

There was a young man who said "God

Must find it exceedingly odd

To see that this tree

Continues to be

When there’s no-one about in the quad."

“Dear Sir, your astonishment’s odd

I am always about in the quad

And therefore this tree

Continues to be

Since observed by, yours faithfully, God.”

Ronald Knox

There was an old man with a beard

Who said, “I demand to be feared.

Address me as God,

And love me, you sod,”

And man did just that, which is weird.

There was a young man who said “Damn!

I suddenly realise I am

A creature that moves

In predestinate grooves.

I’m not even a bus – I’m a tram.”

(Attributed to Maurice E. Hare, 1905)

"Young man, you should stay your complaint,

For the grooves that you call a constraint

Are there to contrive

That you learn to survive:

Trams arrive, buses may or they mayn't."

(Anon replies)

But after some thought he said, "No,

It ain't necessarily so.

The argument fails –

I can lay my own rails,

And go where I wanted to go."

(Andy Giddings/LF)

There was a young man who said: "Though

It seems that I know that I know,

What I would like to see

Is the 'I' that knows 'me'

When I know that I know that I know."

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