A famously known rearer of the fighting cocks
Was hired once by a king for rearing his birds.
Being asked after ten days if his fighting cock
Were ready to fight, the rearer honestly replied,
“Not yet. The bird is still vain and quarrelsome
And relies on his own strength. . .”
Being asked the same after another ten days,
The rearer said, “Not yet; he is still responding
To the crow of other birds and the appearance
Of other fighting cocks. . .”
After ten days more, the coach replied the same,
“Not yet, sir. The game fowl still looks angrily
And is full of his irate spirit. . .”
When a fourth ten days had passed, he replied,
“Nearly so, my lord. Though another cock crows,
It makes no change in him. To look at him,
You would say he was a fowl
Made of a single block of wood.
His spirit and internal qualities are complete.
Now it’s time. . . No other fighters will dare
To meet him, but will run away from him.”
The moral of the fable is still unclear,
Whether it was the gifted rearer
Who had performed great services
Or a type of breeding and good training
That manifested themselves
Through the system number four,
Correlation of regulation and ordering,
The only capable device to bring us
A truly firm result. So, is it the truth
When people say that a system
Has defining value, not a talent? . .
Or maybe the magic number forty
Merely acts the solid part in taking
A qualitative leap? . . Who knows.
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well done,
I like the graphic