Magellan's Log: Ox-herding Picture No. 2

II. Discipline Begun

I am in posession of a straw rope,
and I pass it through his nose,
For once he makes a frantic attempt
to run away,
but he is severely whipped
and whipped;
The beast resists the training
with all the power there is
in a nature wild and ungoverned,
But the rustic oxherd never relaxes
his pulling tether
and ever-ready whip.

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