A moth, I thought, munching a word. <br />How marvellously weird! a worm <br />Digesting a man's sayings -- <br />A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows <br />At the shape of a poet's thunderous phrases -- <br />How unutterably strange! <br />And the pilfering parasite none the wiser <br />For the words he has swallowed.<br /><br />Anonymous Olde English<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-bookworm-3/
