zodiac7 May 2004

No, I'm afraid the actual "poem" was:

Jacobs-Rosenbaum
Levin
Thorne
Hayes
Ohman (?)

[rougly centered]

"Jacobs was explicated as a reference to Jacob's ladder, traditionally allegorized as a figure for the Christian ascent to heaven. In this poem, however, or so my students told me, the means of ascent is not a ladder but a tree, a rose or rosenbaum. This was seen as an obvious reference to the Virgin Mary, who was often characterized as a rose without thorns, itself an emblem of the Immaculate Conception." - Is There a Text in This Class, Fish, 1980