Recently I re-found -- in my copy of The Mathematical Magpie by Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999) (Simon and Schuster, 1962) -- these lines by Lewis Untermeyer (1885-1977):
EINSTEIN: A PARODY IN THE MANNER OF EDW-N MARKH-M
We drew our circle that shut him out,
This man of Science who dared our doubt.
But ah, with a fourth-dimensional grin
He squared a circle that took us in.
Untermeyer's lines first appeared in his Collected Parodies. Here is a link to a second edition (1997) of The Mathematical Magpie (for which the title page description includes: stories, subsets of essays, rhymes, anecdotes, epigrams . . . rational or irrational . . .)
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