Sunday, October 20, 2024

A Proverb

At six things do I stand in awe;
Yea, seven are beyond my grasp:
The starry sky, the moral law,
The weaving worm, the leaping asp,
The growth of seeds, the flight of birds,
And clear-eyed Homer’s wingèd words.

2 comments:

NLR said...

That's good. I Kan't figure out where the third line came from.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I chose that line for purely practical reasons.

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