Innovación en el arte
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INNOVATION IN THE ARTS
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
The Blind Men and the Elephant
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It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see theElephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdyside, 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 andsharp? 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, Thusboldly up and spake: “I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant Is very like a snake!”
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The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee. “What most this wondrous beast islike 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 thisresembles 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 tailThat 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 andstrong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each othermean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!
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John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
The Blind Men and the Elephant
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It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see theElephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdyside, 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 andsharp? 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, Thusboldly up and spake: “I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant Is very like a snake!”
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The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee. “What most this wondrous beast islike 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 thisresembles 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 tailThat 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 andstrong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each othermean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!
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http://www.ukraine.com/forums/open-board/11267-blind-men-elephant.html
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