If you will listen to advice You will avoid the Cockatrice—
A caution I need hardly say
Wholly to-day.
Yet had you lived when they were
Such warning might have saved your life.
To meet the Cockatrice's eye
Means certain death—and that is why
When I its features here
I make it look the other way.
O Cockatrice! were you so mean
What must the Henatrice have been!