قراءة كتاب Food for the Mind Or, A New Riddle-book
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 6
class="verse">That art or nature does produce.
Two bodies have I,
Tho' both join'd in one:
The stiller I stand,
The faster I run.
Why should I my features sham,
Why ugly to a proverb am,
Fierce, obdurate, cruel, strong,
Frightful to the old and young;
Yet, by early education,
Hit the taste of ev'ry nation,
Dance and exercise my staff;
But to make spectators laugh;
Often ride before the great,
Oft with ministers of state;
And tho' aukward is my mein,
I often on the stage am seen:
But to raise your wonder higher,
I to greater heights aspire;
At table I my Lord attend,
Please him and gratify his friend.
For vigilance and courage true
I've no superior, equals few;
Which makes me by th' industrious priz'd,
But by the indolent despis'd;
Bold and alert I meet the foe,
In all engagements valour show;
And if he proves too proud to yield,
One falls before we quit the field:
But tho' with these perfections great
I am endu'd—such is my fate;
They seize and to a stake me tie,
And bastinade me till I die.
