Another Song Of A Fool

This great purple butterfly,

In the prison of my hands,

Has a learning in his eye

Not a poor fool understands.



Once he lived a schoolmaster

With a stark, denying look;

A string of scholars went in fear

Of his great birch and his great book.



Like the clangour of a bell,

Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet.

That is how he learnt so well

To take the roses for his meat.