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Created on: April 09, 2010
Word History
Serendipity
A musical word
Serene and quiet it begins
Then gallops off with a staccato cadence.
More than a word from Walpole,
Coined by Horace in 1754.
"Three Princes of Serendip"
A Persian Fairy Tale
About finding something good
Quite accidentally.
A word coined in history
Exists still today.
To accidentally learn?
What a wonder!
Serendipity
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