The Bard's Something, edit 1: Achebe, kolemath

[kolemath]

I think I read you've been reading blake lately?  I think I see that here.

some comments

The Bard's Warning


It is no lamb but lambs that draw the cat
whose fearful symmetry strikes awful dread fearful symmetry is cool, tiger stripes?
even in our Lord's eyes -- as if your course,
aloof and distant from the flock, should grant if lambs draw the cat, then wouldn't a single lamb distant from the flock not draw the cat?
security. It is no lamb -- the tiger
spots then stalks then pounces on those alone so a lamb then does draw the cat?
and by his sounds of feasting draws the flock birds?
toward his fellow hunters. Times have changed:
as lions wait for death and falcons gyre,
tigers gather in flocks and lambs divide. divide what? this is a play on the lion lying with the lamb?
When shall God's fear revive the slouching pride? again referencing the lord god's fear, which reverses fear of the lord god..this is connecting to the role reversal of tigers adn lambs?
When shall new verse thus well-considered mend
a nation's mind -- and ill-considered, lead
to overthrow of slaughter, haste, and greed? so this is a rebirth of religion?

sorry for the confusion on this