04-12-2024, 01:03 AM
Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses,
but why not those beasts massive enough that their carts
need not be dragged behind them? Whose hooves are not
mere clubs or hammers
but anvils, trees, roof beams, even little hills?
Indeed, whose nature-endowed panoply extends
beyond feet and mouths, beyond mass and speed:
whose ivory bidents
and leathern snares make them the sponsored
net-men of the King of Hell? Was it not the most beautiful thing
for the black earth along the Hydaspes or even the Trebia
to be stained red?
but why not those beasts massive enough that their carts
need not be dragged behind them? Whose hooves are not
mere clubs or hammers
but anvils, trees, roof beams, even little hills?
Indeed, whose nature-endowed panoply extends
beyond feet and mouths, beyond mass and speed:
whose ivory bidents
and leathern snares make them the sponsored
net-men of the King of Hell? Was it not the most beautiful thing
for the black earth along the Hydaspes or even the Trebia
to be stained red?