Lots of readers are sending in poems, though I think in most cases just

their personal favorites. The criterion should be MEMORIZABILITY. Of all

received, the only one so far that I regret missing, because it is indeed

superbly memorizable, is Leigh Hunt’s “Abou ben Adhem.”

P.S. All those readers who sent in limericks about young ladies from

Nantucket, you should be ashamed of yourselves.