Pot and Kettle

'Away!' I cried, to a spiteful Wasp

who challenged me to a fight;

'Would you, a paltry dram of flesh,

Attack a hundredweight?

Go, little upstart, try your mettle

On some old spider, bug or beetle.'

'Your pardon, sir,' the wasp replied:

' If man attacks a God in Heaven,

Why can't a Wasp attack a man-

Which is the most uneven?

This wise discourse, on power and mettle,

Should please your masters-Pot and Kettle.'