‘Think of an egg’

Baby New Year 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books in this cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.

“This is the beginning.

Almost anything can happen.

This is where you find

the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land,

the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page.

Think of an egg, the letter A….’’

— Billy Collins (born 1941). This Holy Cross graduate was twice the U.S. poet laureate.