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“THE LITTLE BLUE DEVIL

“The wind went down with the sunset, The fog came up with the tide,When the Witch of the North took an egg-shell With a little Blue Devil inside.‘Sink,’ she said, ‘or swim,’ she said, ‘It’s all you will get from me.And that is the finish of him,’ she said. And the egg-shell went to sea.
“The wind came up with the morning, The fog blew off with the rainWhen the Witch of the North saw the egg-shell And the little Blue Devil again.‘Did you swim?’ she said; ‘Did you sink?’ she said, And the little Blue Devil replied,‘For myself, I swam, but I think,’ he said, ‘There’s somebody sinking outside.’”

Rudyard Kipling.

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