Threes

3s (to be sung by Niels Bohr)

I think that I shall never c
A # lovelier than 3;
3 < 6 or 4,
And than 1 it's slightly more.

All things in nature come in 3s,
Like ∴s, trios, Q.E.D.'s;
And $s gain more dignity
When thus augmented: 3 × 3.

A 3 whose slender curves are pressed
By banks, for compound interest;
Oh would that, paying loans or rent,
My rates were only 3%!

3² expands with rapture free,
And reaches toward ∞,
3 complements each x and y
And intimately lives with π.

A circle's # of °s
Are best ÷d up by 3s,
But wrapped in dim obscurity
Is √-3.

Atoms are split by men like me,
But only God is 1 in 3.
     --John Atherton