My Simple Plan
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
My Simple Plan is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Strand Magazine in april 1912 as the epigraph of his novel The Lost World.
Poem
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I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.