Toad

Wrinkled like a Disney frog

Or toad, his face a crumpled note

Spectacles and gulping throat

Sitting on his mildewed log

Reading books concerning Jews'

A-rabic learning, Grecian thoughts

Noting pasts comprising torts

A mental mile in other's shoes

In such distance history mute

In past-times the frogman king

The Lion Fountain's bubbles sing, the

Outside traffic for his lute

Empires fall and we grow frail

His wisdom lifts the mildewed veil