Cautionary Verses (Part II)
If you must fly the wyvern
In blue and gold and red
Remember what your mother
For many years has said:
Beware the two-faced other thing
That looks both east and west;
Do not trust whatever speaks
As an unwelcome guest.
If undaunted you will be
And bear a hero's name,
Remember how your father
Won his undying fame:
Guarded ears and opened eyes
And kept alert at rest;
Did not trust the honeyed words
Of the unwelcome guest.
In blue and gold and red
Remember what your mother
For many years has said:
Beware the two-faced other thing
That looks both east and west;
Do not trust whatever speaks
As an unwelcome guest.
If undaunted you will be
And bear a hero's name,
Remember how your father
Won his undying fame:
Guarded ears and opened eyes
And kept alert at rest;
Did not trust the honeyed words
Of the unwelcome guest.
etched with acid at 10:01:00 pm
3 Comments:
didnt your mother also tell you to look both ways before crossing the road?
gweek: yes, but she assumed I would use one head and one pair of eyes, turned one way at a time, toward left and then right... :)
while you're at it, you can't trust the thing that has eyes that look in different directions at the same time :p
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