Xi

Crab's content with crab's provender: crab's love, if soothing, Is no sweeter than pincers are soft--and a new sickle Cuts no sharper than crab's claws nip, keen as boar's toothing! Yet crab's love's no less fervent than bard's, if less musical-- 'Tis a new thing I'd lilt--but a true thing.