Pangur Bán


 * 1) I and Pangur Bán, each of us two at his special art: his mind at hunting (mice), my own mind is in my special craft.
 * 2) I love to rest—better than any fame—at my booklet with diligent science: not envious of me is Pangur Bán: he himself loves his childish art.
 * 3) When we are—tale without tedium—in our house, we two alone, we have—unlimited (is) feat-sport—something to which to apply our acuteness.
 * 4) It is customary at times by feat of valour, that a mouse sticks in his net, and for me there falls into my net a difficult dictum with hard meaning.
 * 5) His eye, this glancing full one, he points against the wall-fence: I myself against the keenness of science point my clear eye, though it is very feeble.
 * 6) He is joyous with speedy going where a mouse sticks in his sharp-claw: I too am joyous, where I understand a difficult dear question.
 * 7) Though we are thus always, neither hinders the other: each of us two likes his art, amuses himself alone.
 * 8) He himself is the master of the work which he does every day: while I am at my own work, (which is) to bring difficulty to clearness.