Life Snake

-e.webb

A single step can end a know,
in fairest grasses of fine meadow,
in residences, this scene's; below,
a spotted whip lash, that has seams that grow,
If noble mans steps should meet this shaft of narrow,
on hearing her sound of no syllable to bestow,
as fast to ponder, of such a unseen greet,
she Divulges  to you a deathly blow,
on retreat by no foot into the ground below.