Thread:Mainframebabe/@comment-31592479-20170518181230/@comment-31592479-20170522230514

Goodness, no. It's one of several similar exercises that I learned from various people (although I confess I did enlarge it a bit from the version I learned). This one was a favourite of my father's:

Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific:

Fain would I ponder thy nature specific --

Floating so high in the ether capacious,

Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.