Chicken a la Avon

She stood in strange resolve upon the curb
Till up she stretch'd her downy throat and stepped
With hideous cry upon the stony pave
And, scuttling madly, gained the other side.
But wherefore to this task she plied herself
Remains a mystery, a knot tied up
In tangled ends of silly chickenhood.

The Baron's Quatrain

Every extended thing has
its correlate in Thought,
whether that correlate is part
of a conscious mind or not.


(found in Sir Frederick Pollock's Spinoza His Life and Philosophy, p.163, 10/8/2011 by gulielmusbeta.)