"count their/your ways"?

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks to Arnold and the two Laurences.  Of course this is what I was
groping for -- not anything more subtle.  Although don't all poets
take their lines from the Bible?

And no wonder I didn't find it Googling -- I didn't try "count *the* ways"!

Joel

At 6/11/2007 10:08 AM, you wrote:
>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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