Monday, January 13, 2003

Ant Hill Comments

Rating: 2.8

Black ants have made a musty mound
My purple pine tree under,
And I am often to be found,
Regarding it with wonder.
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Robert William Service
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Danuta Glendenning 23 March 2007

He displays such an insight into other sentient beings, it's amazing. Reminds me of J.Gay's poem 'The Turkey and the Ant', where the ant gets a human voice, beseeching the turkey, intend on consuming the ants: 'control thy more voracious bill, nor, for a breakfast nations kill'.

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