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Something stirs as numbing ache Clawing she falls na’er to wake A vengeful hiss, it slithers out Signifies the calf’s mistake Fangs from which the poison drips eyes black and cut like arrow’s tip Regards the cow it’s hollowed place Sees mind through mind’s eye And from mind discerns its lie For all things are cows with both within Often poisons slowly seep, or teeth will quickly sink With mistake the calf will die, what some call sin the snake calls mistake, with venomous grin What are we to say to this? Half serpent half calf- am I to choose? Snakes will leer the vengeful wrath And calf to mother, looks for the stamping feet What may be, it is then If serpent strike first Then venom is righteous and just And if cow succeed Then hoof has stamped in moral deed 7-9-18
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 6:25 PM UTC
The Snake and the Calf
Something stirs as numbing ache Clawing she falls na’er to wake A vengeful hiss, it slithers out Signifies the calf’s mistake Fangs from which the poison drips eyes black and cut like arrow’s tip Regards the cow it’s hollowed place Sees mind through mind’s eye And from mind discerns its lie For all things are cows with both within Often poisons slowly seep, or teeth will quickly sink With mistake the calf will die, what some call sin the snake calls mistake, with venomous grin What are we to say to this? Half serpent half calf- am I to choose? Snakes will leer the vengeful wrath And calf to mother, looks for the stamping feet What may be, it is then If serpent strike first Then venom is righteous and just And if cow succeed Then hoof has stamped in moral deed 7-9-18
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 6:25 PM UTC
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