"count their/your ways"?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Jun 11 14:08:01 UTC 2007


On Jun 11, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> What is the correct phrase, and source?  (Biblical?)  I am
> floundering with "let me count their/your ways".

are you thinking of
   How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese)

or something more obscure?

arnold

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