Fentastic Trip...Thanks and a Poser

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Om Shri Ganapateya Namaha...

 

Dear Readers amd Revered memebers.....

Apros pos the the fentsic and shaking PPT posted by somre enlightened

member...I in good faith am citing a good poem....I hope you will

enjoy it and Speculate....

 

The Blind Men and The Elephant

 

It was six men of Indostan,

To learning much inclined,

Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind),

That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

 

 

The first approached the elephant,

And, happening to fall,

Against his broad and sturdy side,

At once began to bawl;

'God bless me! but the elephant Is very like a wall!'

 

The second, feeling of the tusk,

Cried: 'Ho! what have we here

So very round and smooth and sharp?

To me 'tis mighty clear

This wonder of an elephant

Is very like a spear!'

 

 

The third approached the animal,

And,happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands,

Thus boldly up and spake:

'I see', quoth he,' the elephant Is very like a snake!'

 

The fourth reached out his eager hand,

And felt about the knee:

' What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain,'quoth he;

' Tis clear enough the elephant Is very like a tree!'

 

The fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,

Said: 'E'en the blindest man

Can tell what this resembles most;

Deny the fact who can,

This marvel of an elephant Is very like a fan!'

The sixth no sooner had begun

About the beast to grope,

Than, seizing on the swinging tail

That fell within his scope,

'I see', quoth he, 'the elephant

Is very like a rope!'

 

And so these men of Indostan

Disputed loud and long,

Each in his own opinion

Exceeding stiff and strong,

Though each was partly in the right

And all were in the wrong

 

—John Godfrey Saxe