The Lighter Side of Human Nature
The Cricket - Nature's Violinist
Dr Abe V Rotor
Aesop called you like your kin, the grasshopper, sluggard,
for heeding not your want for the rainy day;
In summer you fiddle all day and the whole night through,
lilting the spirits of those at work or play.
I say, what could earn best their place and their existence,
but to unburden the load of the world;
etching a living, each thought nothing else but living,
than sweet violin and a little kind word? ~
In summer you fiddle all day and the whole night through,
lilting the spirits of those at work or play.
I say, what could earn best their place and their existence,
but to unburden the load of the world;
etching a living, each thought nothing else but living,
than sweet violin and a little kind word? ~
Listen keenly the music of the crickets on a dark night.
and analyze their cacophony of sounds - from mating
calls, territorial warnings, to battle cries.
Author plays the violin before an aquarium of Oscar fish. At home, QC Do fish understand human music?
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