Moral Alphabet - Hilaire Belloc




W For Waterbeetle

My little victim, let me trouble you
To fix your active mind on

W

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[Illustration] from A Moral Alphabet by Hilaire Belloc

The WATERBEETLE here shall teach

A sermon far beyond your reach:

He flabbergasts the Human Race

By gliding on the water's face

With ease, celerity, and grace;

But if he ever stopped to think

Of how he did it, he would sink.


Moral


Don't ask Questions!