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This poem gives every indication of extolling the grammarian's academic labours. But I suspect there is a heavily veiled undercurrent of irony. The ordinary fellow keeps adding one and one, and hits his target. The lofty man aims for a million, and misses a unit. The implication is that this unit may be of crucial importance.
C.H.Wallace from United Kingdom