River: Ethical Grook

[mdlbear]

From Grooks of Piet Hein

    AN ETHICAL GROOK
    I see
       and I hear
          and I speak no evil;
    I carry
       no malice
          within my breast;
    yet quite without
       wishing
          a man to the Devil
    one may be
       permitted
          to hope for the best.  -- Piet Hein

see also Grooks by Piet Hein There are several different collections on the web; most are probably pirated. Of course, given Hein's ancestry, that may be appropriate.

Comments

[kjn]

I sat down and tried to locate that gruk in the original Danish (there is a database that you can query over e-mail), but couldn't find it.