Today's poem is a childhood favorite of mine from second grade. While I learned it from my english book, Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson was published as part of his collection of poems called "A Child's Garden of Verses". A number of cherished children's poetry came from that book.
Years ago I searched for it on the web and the first hit was a page discussing Object Oriented Programming which used a couple of lines as an opening quote. There are a number of parallels between software and this poem. The building blocks are objects or components. The poem suggests design patterns with the make up of the city, "A kirk and a mill and a palace besides". System development is like building a make-believe world from an internal vision. Its not uncommon to put things together only to throw them away later.
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