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VILLAGE MUSINGS: THE POET QUESTIONS THE ANT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you, feeble as you were, attempt
Last Line: Might as soon this ponderous earth divide.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Temptation


WHY did you, feeble as you were, attempt
A task so perfectly herculean?
Could it be to rear your tender offspring?
Did your concern touching their welfare
So impel? Was aught like conference held
Ere you began to calculate success? ...
Man, physically
Your superior, could not with equal tools
The work have done. He, comparatively,
Might as soon this ponderous earth divide.





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