I am a lifelong democrat,
And you'll make what you will of that,
But if you must define me, have some class,
Because, being a democrat,
Wherever else my head is at
It isn't in the body of an ass.
You’re right there, brother, and Honest Abe would rise full height and scratch his beard to contemplate the choice of elephant for his party’s cause. Six blind philosophers, according to their trade, describe the pachyderm, and conclusions that they make lend less to preconception than reason more to pause. A student told me—mouth of babes?— that elephants fear mice in unimagined ways: those tiny rodents fit the tunnel of the trunk, a flaw dear Darwin might enjoy in the passing of his days. The elephant with wise, commodious brain will surely sneeze away such invasion to its laws. ‘But memory,’ Abe might contend, ‘is mainstay to the truths we hold to be self evident, a gaze into our mammoth past and everything that was…’ Indeed, remember. And reflect. What fades in sometimes mulish, obstinate exchange is mouselike fears for Godlike fear and awe.
You’re right there, brother, and Honest Abe
ReplyDeletewould rise full height and scratch his beard to contemplate
the choice of elephant for his party’s cause.
Six blind philosophers, according to their trade,
describe the pachyderm, and conclusions that they make
lend less to preconception than reason more to pause.
A student told me—mouth of babes?—
that elephants fear mice in unimagined ways:
those tiny rodents fit the tunnel of the trunk, a flaw
dear Darwin might enjoy in the passing of his days.
The elephant with wise, commodious brain
will surely sneeze away such invasion to its laws.
‘But memory,’ Abe might contend, ‘is mainstay
to the truths we hold to be self evident, a gaze
into our mammoth past and everything that was…’
Indeed, remember. And reflect. What fades
in sometimes mulish, obstinate exchange
is mouselike fears for Godlike fear and awe.