To their children and their wives:
But touching their trip, and their net's vain dip,
They disputed all their lives.
The wise men three could never agree,
Why they missed the promised boon;
They agreed alone that their net they had thrown,
And they had not caught the moon.
I have thought myself pale o'er this ancient tale,
And its sense I could not ken;
But now I see that the wise men three