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by John Godfrey Saxe
American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based the following poem on a fable which was told in India many years ago.
It was six
men of Indostan
- To learning much inclined,
- Who went to see the Elephant
- (Though all of them were blind),
- That each by observation
- Might satisfy his mind
- The First approached the Elephant,
- And happening to fall
- Against his broad and sturdy side,
- At once began to bawl:
- “God bless me! but the Elephant
- Is very like a wall!”
- The Second, feeling of the tusk,
- Cried, “Ho! what have we here
- So very round and smooth and sharp?
- To me ’tis mighty clear
- This wonder of an Elephant
- Is very like a spear!”
- The Third approached the animal,
- And happening to take
- The squirming trunk within his hands,
- Thus boldly up and spake:
- “I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
- Is very like a snake!”
- The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
- And felt about the knee.
- “What most this wondrous beast is like
- Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
- “ ‘Tis clear enough the Elephant
- Is very like a tree!”
- The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
- Said: “E’en the blindest man
- Can tell what this resembles most;
- Deny the fact who can
- This marvel of an Elephant
- Is very like a fan!׆
- The Sixth no sooner had begun
- About the beast to grope,
- Than, seizing on the swinging tail
- That fell within his scope,
- “I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
- Is very like a rope!”
- And so these men of Indostan
- Disputed loud and long,
- Each in his own opinion
- Exceeding stiff and strong,
- Though each was partly in the right,
- And all were in the wrong!
Moral:
- So oft in theologic wars,
- The disputants, I ween,
- Rail on in utter ignorance
- Of what each other mean,
- And prate about an Elephant
- Not one of them has seen!
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