Thursday, August 8, 2019

Words from a Teacher's Past, 25


“Words, words, words.”
    Hamlet (2.2)

List #5: (g) impregnable, (h) contempt

The fortress seemed impregnable
Atop it perched a human skull.

But we were full of pure contempt
And knew that we would soon attempt

To storm the place—to conquer all!
Oh, pride, indeed, precedes a fall.

And in a very little while
That skull would show a grisly smile.

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