Leo Carty's Circle Poem by AHO Speaks

Have IBM computers found
The secret of that stone round
Enigma on the plain? Was great
Stonehenge then raised to calculate?

Could stoneage man from level around
Anticipate Apollo's found
When even now to glimpse a star
Our savants scale Mount Palomar?

With card and wire, tape and core
The stones are stripped of Druid lore
They frame the sun and catch the moon
The twenty second day of June.

Proud dream of Druid origin
Grows dim as scientists begin
To test.. Those megaliths they see
As heralds of the syzygy.

If quarter hour before the time
Midsummer sun begins its climb
The full moon in the ocean dips
The ancients could predict eclipse.

Astronomers rejoice to find
That colleague Hawkins has divined
Solution to the mystery
Once muted in prehistory.

But from each paradox defined
Another forms.. The stoneage mind
No longer may we condescend
To call a link in upward trend.