One group of two is addressed to Charles Ricketts. The Serpent begins
Hail Pytho; thou lithe length of gleaming plates!
and The Panther thus:
Consider now the Panther, such a beast.
One question addressed to the Panther is:
Dost, cloyed by rich meats spicy as the south,
Expose thy fevered palate to the cool,
Which, like snow melting in an emperor’s mouth,
Helps make excess thy life’s ironic rule?
Consider now Sturge Moore, our bewilderment in trying to ascertain what you wish us to think about such things as these, and consider too a transposition of the first line of a well-known poem about a Tiger, to read, “Consider now the Tiger.”