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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elefans' Fans' Grey Tanka Eulogy written on a Grass Green Country Backyard after John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The King was ill. A travelling monk told him to look upon the healing colour of green. The king spent lakhs and lakhs of money hiring artists to paint the entire country green. The monk once again travelled in the vicinity and came to court. He said to the king: 'Would it not have been better to put on green glasses? ' Paraphrased from a story told by Sathya Sai Baba</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Guard us from advice<br>Responses aping logic<br>As King in a trice <br>Should have rejected both monk, <br>Story artists' green leafed trunk.<br> <br>Green dreams in dark night<br>Reveal lies theologic<br>Emerald eyes quite<br>Express blood red as black junk -<br>Simplistic suggestions sunk.<br> <br>Enormous fan ears, <br>Like trees legs large, small rope tail, <br>Ends pointed, tusk spears.<br>Flanks walls, pack I derm trunk snake <br>ANSwer: blind faith tale's trumps wake.<br> <br>Guard from blind minds blind<br>Leads up undermined mined path <br>As grass green scene signed<br>Shows more than meets eye. debunk<br>Surface virid, vivid drunk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Blind Men and the Elephant<br>It was six men of Hindostan<br>To learning much inclined<br>Who went to see the Elephant<br>[Though all of them were blind]; <br>That each by observation<br>Might satisfy his mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first approached the Elephant, <br>And happening to fall<br>Against his broad and sturdy side, <br>At once began to bawl: <br>"Bless me, it seems the Elephant<br>Is very like a wall."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The second, feeling of his tusk, <br>Cried, "Ho! what have we here<br>So very round and smooth and sharp.<br>To me ‘tis mighty clear<br>This wonder of an Elephant<br>Is very like a spear." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third approached the animal, <br>And happening to take<br>The squirming trunk within his hands, <br>Then boldly up and spake: <br>"I see, " quoth he, "the Elephant<br>Is very like a snake."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fouth stretched out his eager hand<br>And felt about the knee, <br>"What most this mighty beast is like<br>Is mighty plain, " quoth he: <br>"'Tis clear enough, the Elephant<br>Is very like a tree."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fifth who chanced to touch the ear<br>Said, "Even the blindest man<br>Can tell what this resembles most; <br>Deny the fact who can, <br>This marvel of an Elephant<br>Is very like a fan."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sixth, no sooner had began<br>About the beast to grope, <br>Than, seizing on the swinging tail<br>That fell within his scope, <br>"I see, " cried he, "the Elephant<br>Is very like a rope."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so these men of Hindostan<br>Disputed loud and long, <br>Each in his own opinion<br>Exceeding stiff and strong, <br>Though each was partly in the right<br>And all were in the wrong.<br>John Godfrey Saxe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(26 February 2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424993" data-title="Elefans' Fans' Grey Tanka Eulogy written on a Grass Green Country Backyard after John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant" data-description="The King was ill. A travelling monk told him to look upon the healing colour of green. The king spent lakhs and lakhs of money hiring artists to paint the entire country green. The monk once again travelled in the vicinity and came to court. He sa..."></div> </div> </div>
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