Regarding the mystery And the magic Associated with the number seven The historic references The staggering reverences Are more than frequent They are a constant echo In India, Agni The God of fire Seven are thy fuels Thy tongues, thy holy sages Thy favourite haunts In seven ways Thy worshippers adore thee Seven are thy sources The Pythagorean doctrine Refers to the author The governor of all things States that he is without variation Ever like himself And like no other Even as the number seven In the testaments Old and new Seven is written More than one hundred And eighty times All the world’s a stage And all the men and women Merely players They have their exits And their entrances And one man in his time Plays many parts His acts being seven ages Infant, school-boy, lover Soldier, justice, old age And second childhood Speculation spans millennia Trace it to the night travellers To the shepherds Compelled to look up To wonder at the six bodies Moving through the night Only to be chased away By the seventh The one The Sun We put forth the theory Using the square and compasses With fundamental understanding One can accidentally create The three, the four, the five The six, the eight, the nine But to make a seven-pointed polygon One must consciously And deliberately measure One must be aware of the goal And calculate to achieve it This, in our opinion Is what separates us And gives us dominion Over all of the beasts Of this world