INEXPLICITUS

You know that your mind has given way

when delightful nothings cease to sway 

a nudge will certainly do 

to send you o'er the cliff

and make you lose your cool

so said the deer with a sniff

talking to an hare with a leaf

when by the riverside they drank

where all went without rank

giving advice free and frank

"listen" said the deer

mayhap the blame lies not with that which gave the nudge

without which there would have been no budge

Oh no,the blame or praise, as you please

lies in that which led you up the cliff

in a daze and trance

till faith told passing chance to give the nudge

and his feet doth heavily tread

that from trance we dislodge

and we cry O! It was he