333 - Three threes make three hundred and thirty three

Three threes make three hundred and thirty three,
Or you can add three threes up and get nine;
Three threes, trinity of a trinity;
Three quatrains, three rhyme sounds to end a line.
Three strains of “Oh my darling” Clementine;
In the year 333 St Helen died,
Constantinople named by Constantine;
It’s half the number of the beast John spied;
Two little fleas plus one, bingo man cried.
A third of telephone emergency;
A third of thrice-repeated German “nein;”
Three insects each into three parts divide.
The Third Reich began 1933;
To Dante, three times thirty-three’s divine.
Fr1 3 Aug 2007