Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Perlward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

of regex-split $clouds -- and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of -- grep'ed ad map'ed and shifted

High in the pragmatic silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting @INC along, and flung

My eager objects through footless halls of methods...

Up, up the long, delirious, burning decompositions

I've topped the test-swept heights with easy grace

Where never tester nor even coder flew --

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

The high untresspassed sanity of design,

Put out my psyche, and touched the face of Wall.

UPDATE: Note, this is taken from a now famous passage and I am not that author. I have just taken it and modified it towards a Perl bent. I don't recall the original author; but it is one of my favorite passages and this is not intended to in any way detract from that wonderful original.

ack Albuquerque, NM

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