Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught
XLVIII
Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught.
Nature my mother. Craft nourished me year by year.
Three bodies are my food. My strength is in naught.
Slaughter, wrath, waste, and noise are my children dear.
Guess, friend, what I am and how I am wrought:
Monster of sea or of land or of elsewhere?
Know me and use me and I may thee defend
And, if I be thine enemy, I may thy life end.
Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught.
Nature my mother. Craft nourished me year by year.
Three bodies are my food. My strength is in naught.
Slaughter, wrath, waste, and noise are my children dear.
Guess, friend, what I am and how I am wrought:
Monster of sea or of land or of elsewhere?
Know me and use me and I may thee defend
And, if I be thine enemy, I may thy life end.
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