StoryTitle("caps", "The Blind Men and the Elephant") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "by John Godfrey Saxe") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was six men of Hindostan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To learning much inclined,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who went to see the elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Though all of them were blind);", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That each by observation", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Might satisfy his mind.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first approached the elephant,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And happening to fall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Against his broad and sturdy side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At once began to bawl,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Bless me, it seems the elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a wall.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The second, feeling of his tusk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cried, \"Ho! what have we here", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So very round and smooth and sharp?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To me 'tis mighty clear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This wonder of an elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a spear.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The third approached the animal,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And happening to take", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The squirming trunk within his hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then boldly up and spake;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I see,\" quoth he, \"the elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a snake.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fourth stretched out his eager hand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And felt about the knee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"What most this mighty beast is like", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is mighty plain,\" quoth he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\" 'Tis clear enough the elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a tree.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fifth who chanced to touch the ear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said, \"Even the blindest man", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can tell what this resembles most;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deny the fact who can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This marvel of an elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a fan.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sixth no sooner had begun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "About the beast to grope", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than, seizing on the swinging tail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That fell within his scope,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I see,\" cried he, \"the elephant", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is very like a rope.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so these men of Hindostan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Disputed loud and long,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each of his own opinion", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Exceeding stiff and strong,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though each was partly in the right,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They all were in the wrong.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>