"count their/your ways"?

Laurence Urdang urdang at SBCGLOBAL.NET
Mon Jun 11 15:12:46 UTC 2007


What are you on about?
  The opening line of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem is:
  "How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways."
  Is that what you meant?
  L. Urdang

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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What is the correct phrase, and source? (Biblical?) I am
floundering with "let me count their/your ways".

Thanks!
Joel

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