Snake
On a hot Sicilian morning the speaker comes down to his water-trough in pyjamas for the heat and finds a snake there before him, drinking with a slack soft body from the stone in the shade of the carob tree. The voice of his education says that a gold snake in Sicily is venomous and must be killed, and asks whether he is afraid, while he stands and waits his turn and feels honoured that it should seek his hospitality. Written at Taormina under Etna and collected in Birds, Beasts and Flowers.
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