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.
Three Poetic Riddles
Greek
c. 550 B.C.
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