Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Sheep and the Wolf Are Not Agreed

Defending wolves and their deathblows?
Iraqi wolf with teeth that shred?
Upon the pacifist three woes!

Beware the vulpine power grows,
beware the duped, their banners red,
defending wolves and their deathblows.

Appeasing cunning wolves bestowsmore
time to spread their murd'rous dread.
Upon the pacifist three woes!

This land where Tigris wends and flows
must weep as men become misled,
defending wolves and their deathblows.

The shepherd's blamed who overthrows
(his slingshot's aim was wolf's forehead).
Upon the pacifist three woes!

Redeeming sheep from fiendish foes
requires force. "How wrong!" they said,
defending wolves and their deathblows.
Upon the pacifist three woes.

by Airedale

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures.

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