Three Poetic Riddles

Cleobulina
Greek
c. 550 B.C.

 

I saw one man welding bronze to another man with fire,
so tightly as to make them common blood.

I saw a man steal and cheat perforce,
and to do this perforce was most righteous.

A dead ass boxed my ear with his horned shin-bone.

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