Sagacity
On a lazy lavender afternoon,
I balked at a Baedeker in the sand.
I could hear his voice from behind a dune.
Our meeting per chance could not have been planned.
He said: “I have just conferred with the moon
and Sir Hare was so kind as to help me stand”.
Now I was amazed as you might surmise,
that a book could speak and appear so wise.
I said to the book, so beautifully bound:
“How could a volume, tell me if I’m lost”?
“Do I appear rapt and not to be found”?
“And if you help me; what will be the cost?”
“No cost at all”, he replied so profound.
He had no fingers that he could have crossed.
I'm trusting a book, feeling quite daft,
I should have departed, turned and just laughed.
Now a talking book that works with a Hare
may seem outlandish and so out of place.
But I was so lost and the book was there;
I accepted his offer, with charm and grace.
“Now hear what I say” he uttered with care
and stared in my eyes with a stern boldface.
“Believe what I say until you’re well grown;
keep my wisdom and this Hare for your own”.
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