KplFlUSA
Joined 13 September 2012
ABRACADABRA.
- By Abracadabra we signify
- An infinite number of things.
- 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why?
- And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby
- The Truth (with the comfort it brings)
- The Truth (with the comfort it brings)
- Is open to all who grope in night,
- Crying for Wisdom's holy light.
- Whether the word is a verb or a noun
- Is knowledge beyond my reach.
- I only know that 'tis handed down.
- From sage to sage,
- From age to age --
- An immortal part of speech!
- Of an ancient man the tale is told
- That he lived to be ten centuries old,
- In a cave on a mountain side.
- (True, he finally died.)
- The fame of his wisdom filled the land,
- For his head was bald, and you'll understand
- His beard was long and white
- And his eyes uncommonly bright.
- Philosophers gathered from far and near
- To sit at his feet and hear and hear,
- Though he never was heard
- To utter a word
- But "Abracadabra, abracadab,
- Abracada, abracad,
- Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!"
- 'Twas all he had,
- 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each
- Made copious notes of the mystical speech,
- Which they published next --
- A trickle of text
- In the meadow of commentary.
- Mighty big books were these,
- In a number, as leaves of trees;
- In learning, remarkably -- very!
- He's dead,
- As I said,
- And the books of the sages have perished,
- But his wisdom is sacredly cherished.
- In Abracadabra it solemnly rings,
- Like an ancient bell that forever swings.
- O, I love to hear
- That word make clear
- Humanity's General Sense of Things.
- Jamrach Holobom