Selected Poetry of Hubert Foss
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Abstract
Hubert was an avid reader of English literature and particularly of English poetry, and he composed poems from childhood. Many were occasional poems, for births, birthdays and anniversaries; others were linked to places and events. Most are clever, light and humorous, and reflect the musical talent which he possessed in abundance. While in the 1920s he contributed a few poems to such journals as The New Witness and New Age, they were generally written for private enjoyment. This small selection is devoted to the poems he dedicated to his beloved Dora. Some carry a date and/or the occasion. TO DORA, FOR MUSIC 18–19 February 1939, Toronto The swan sings again, Firm-necked, courage-eyed: It was not her last song. She sails, through thickening rushes Into the open water Splendid as strong men swimming, Or quiet, like a cat in a corner Whose avenues none can follow. The sound of her breath, her voice renewed, A low note, a high note – She is the one singing swan, She will sing at my death, And joy my mourners. DORA Christmas [undated] When Christmas time is coming round, I feel my view is wrong, For everyone is all a-bound, Their hearts are full of song, They yearn and itch and long! While I would rather go to ground Till all the glories have been found. Here is a little extra thing That might assist your nose, It's black, and therefore does not ring ’gainst bag or winter/summer clothes. (I scorned the peach and rose!) If it encourages you to sing, that will be, once more, everything. It's rightly called (I'm told) compact (of what I have no notion), I learnt at school Latin and tact, All about land and ocean, Deportment and free motion. Assisted by more lotion! Your use will prove the name a fact; I'll learn on seeing how you act. It seems to me a curious toy, As swift to pass as water, But as you have a strapping boy, An enviable daughter, I offer it in hope some joy will follow in its train some time (I've had to change the scheme of rhyme) And ask you to believe that I'm Affectionately Hubert.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".