Whatever our faults, we can always engage That no fancy or fable shall sully our page, So take note of what follows, I beg. This creature so grand and august in its age, In its youth is hatched out of an egg. And oft in some far Coptic town The Missionary sits him down
The Crocodile, by Hilaire Belloc
The Crocodile, by Hilaire Belloc
The Crocodile, by Hilaire Belloc
Whatever our faults, we can always engage That no fancy or fable shall sully our page, So take note of what follows, I beg. This creature so grand and august in its age, In its youth is hatched out of an egg. And oft in some far Coptic town The Missionary sits him down