<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567416" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Snake-Doctor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once I found an ant-lion's hole<br>And an ant-lion in it: nippers<br>Like a pair of rusty clippers.<br>And I saw a red ant roll<br>In its pit, and, quick as Ned,<br>This old ant-lion fanged its head,<br>Held it till the ant was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I told my father: he<br>Smiled and said, 'He beats the dickens,<br>With his pinchers; even chickens<br>Have n't his voracity.<br>Think now what he would have done<br>Had you been an ant, my son,<br>Fallen in that pit like one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Daniel in the lion's den!<br>Guess you'd come home good and gory.<br>But now here's another story:<br>You should see these ant-lions when<br>They have wings; and, blue and green,<br>Ponds and pools they fly between:<br>Prettiest things I've ever seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Look just like the dragonflies;<br>And perhaps they are snake-feeders;<br>Name you'll never find in Readers<br>Read at school: but, I surmise,<br>Dragonflies are not the same<br>As these old snake-doctors; name<br>For which I am not to blame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who's to blame then? If it's not<br>I or, say, the dictionary,<br>Since we two seem so contráry,<br>Must be that old ant-lion what<br>Can't content itself, that's plain,<br>With its bug-estate; remain<br>Just a bug in sun and rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Has to get himself new clothes!<br>Gauzy wings that shine and glitter;<br>Something that he thinks is fitter<br>His profession, I suppose,<br>Doctoring things, like water-snakes;<br>Finery that often takes<br>Eyes of hungry ducks and drakes:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And of fishes, too, the fool.<br>Who his coat so bright and brassy,<br>Mirrored in the waters glassy,<br>Leap for, drag into the pool.<br>Old snake-doctor, flaunt your fill!<br>Feed the snakes or cure or kill<br>In the end you pay the bill.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Madison+Julius+Cawein">Madison Julius Cawein</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=567416" data-title="Old Snake-Doctor de Madison Julius Cawein" data-description="Once I found an ant-lion's hole And an ant-lion in it: nippers Like a pair of rusty clippers. And I saw a red ant roll In its pit, and, quick as Ned, This old ant-lion fanged its head, Held it till the ant was dead. II. And I told my father: he ..."></div> </div> </div>

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