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The Blind Man and The Elephant | Classic Indian Poem · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The blind men and the elephant. It was six men
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  Speaker 1: of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see
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  Speaker 1: the elephant, though all of them were blind, that each,
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  Speaker 1: by observation might satisfy his mind. The first approached the elephant, and,
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  Speaker 1: happening to fall against his broad and sturdy side, at once,
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  Speaker 1: began to ball. God, bless me, but the elephant is
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  Speaker 1: very like a wall. The second, feeling of the tusk, cried, Ho,
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  Speaker 1: what have we here? So very round and smooth and sharp?
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  Speaker 1: To me, it is mighty clear. This wonder of an
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  Speaker 1: elephant is very like a spear. The third approached the animal, and,
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  Speaker 1: happening to take the squirming trunk within his hands, thus
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  Speaker 1: boldly up and spake. I I see, quoth he, the
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  Speaker 1: elephant is very like a snake. The fourth reached out
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  Speaker 1: his eager hand and felt about the knee. What most
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  Speaker 1: this wondrous beast is like is mighty plain, quoth he.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear enough the elephant is very like a tree.
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  Speaker 1: The fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, said, even
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  Speaker 1: the blindest man can tell what this resembles. Most deny
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  Speaker 1: the fact, who can This marvel of an elephant is
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  Speaker 1: very like a fan the sixth. No sooner had begun
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  Speaker 1: about the beast to grope than seizing on the swinging
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  Speaker 1: tail that fell within his scope. I see, quoth he,
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  Speaker 1: the elephant is very like a rope. And so these
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  Speaker 1: men of Indostan disputed, loud and long, each in his
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  Speaker 1: own opinion, exceeding stiff and strong, though each was partly
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  Speaker 1: in the right, and all were in the wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: often in theologic wars the disputants i ween rail on
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  Speaker 1: in utter ignorance of what each other mean, and prate
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  Speaker 1: about an elephant. Not one of them has seen