User:Bird of Hermes

The Ripley Scroll:

In the great seas without lees

Standeth the bird of Hermes

Eating his wings variable

And maketh him full yet stable

When all his feather be from him gone

He standeth still here as a stone

Here is now both white and red

And all so stone to quicken the dead

All and some without fable

Both hard and soft and malleable

Understand now well and right

And thank you God of this sight

BIRD OF HERMES BE THY NAME, EATING MY WINGS TO KEEP MYSELF TAME.