The Elephant and the Tragopan By VIKRAM SETH.



The Elephant and the Tragopan By VIKRAM SETH.
Bingle

                   The Elephant and the Tragopan


They talked for hours, and at the close 
At last the elephant arose,
And with a modest trumpet-cell 
Drew the attention of them all:


"O Beasts of Bingle gathered round, 
Though in our search for common ground 
I would not dream of unanimity
I hope our views may reach proximity 
I speak to you as one whose clan 
Has served and therefore studied man.


He is a  creature mild and vicious, 
Practical-minded and capricious, 
Loving and brutal, sane mad, 
The good as puzzling as the bad.
The sticky centre of this mess
Is an uneasy selfishness.


He ripe our flesh and tears our skin 
For cloth without, for food within. 
The leopard's spots are his to wear.
Our ivory unknots his hair.


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