Sea Wolf

The Blind Men and the Elephant ----------------------------------------------------------------- It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . They conclude that the elephant is like a wall (stomach), snake (trunk), spear (tusk), tree (leg), fan (ear), or rope (tail), depending on where they touch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff & strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an elephant Not one of them has seen! John Godfrey Saxe (butchered by me/Y!A)