How strangely like a churchyard skull <br />The thing that's there amongst the leaves! <br /> <br />A Hornets' nest; but stir the branch <br />And they'll be round your head and ears! <br /> <br />So wary ana so weaponed, <br />How do they not possess the wold? <br /> <br />Their lives a watch, their act a doom, <br />Of their own terrors they must die! <br /> <br />Livid, uneyed, articulate, <br />How like a skull their nest they make!<br /><br />Padraic Colum<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hornets/
