Ram

    , and bait the biggest

     Bear

    ?

    "O father, please to let me go!" was still the urchin's cry;

    "I'll be extremely careful, sir, and won't go

     very

    high;

    Oh if this little pleasure-trip you only will allow,

    I promise to be back again in time to fetch the cow!"

    "You're rather young," said Dædalus, "to tempt the upper air;

    But take the wings, and mind your eye with very special care;

    And keep at least a thousand miles below the nearest star;

    Young lads, when out upon a lark, are apt to go too far!"

    He took the wings—that foolish boy—without the least dismay;

    His father stuck 'em on with wax, and so he soared away;

    Up, up he rises, like a bird, and not a moment stops

    Until he's fairly out of sight beyond the mountain-tops!

    And still he flies—away—away; it seems the merest fun;

    No marvel he is getting bold, and aiming at the sun;

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