Versos English Eunice Tietjens At the Hour of the Horse avoid raising a roof-tree

English poem

At the Hour of the Horse avoid raising a roof-tree

by (1884–1944)

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At the Hour of the Horse avoid raising a roof-tree, for by the trampling of his hoofs it may be beaten down; And at the Hour of the cunning Rat go not near a soothsayer, for by his cunning he may mislead the oracle, and the hopes of the enquirer come to naught.

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