Close your eyes and forget

All your self-decency.

This you will soon regret—

Finding your own peace and glee?

Will your match finally be met

Through what you thought was impenetrable debris?

Or will you win the bet

In a fight known as negativity?

 

Listen to the legends of the ones before you….

It could help you in wondrous ways!

But should you listen to the old or the new

In a path of never-ending plays?

 

At least listen to this story that must be told:

The story of Tripetta and Hop-Frog.

It is maybe two hundred years old,

Printed on the materials from a log

 

It all started as a masquerade;

A masquerade thought of by the dwarves.

A room full of viewers stood and paid

As Hop-Frog intentionally locked the doors.

 

Hop-Frog’s ingenious plan was this:

Burn the king and his ministers on a chandelier.

It was a sight that only the blind could miss,

And it would strike the seeing’s hearts with fear

 

Why was Hop-Frog performing such a cruel deed?

He and Tripetta wanted revenge on the royal.

For the king was cruel and had very much feed

While the dwarves felt as if they slept on his filthy soil.

 

Tired of the abuse they had found,

Hop-Frog and Tripetta came up with a plan.

The orangutans they had received were slightly round.

They were the king and his ministers; round and ready for demand.

 

Dressed as orangutans, they marched into a room—

Patiently, Hop-Frog explained what they should have done.

The royal ones hadn’t realized they would soon meet their doom.

Instead, they believed this would be great fun!

 

Hop-Frog then put a chain around them.

The eight orangutans were aware they would receive surprise.

Suddenly, the voices of many began to surround them

With excitement shining in their eyes.

 

Hop-Frog did many tricks with the eight men,

Some of which had them laugh at themselves!

They soon felt as if they were one whole wren

When Hop-Frog and Tripetta lifted them their selves.

 

The two jesters had a sinister trick up their sleeves.

It was a trick that nobody in the whole land had suspected.

A fire they had made would give the orangutans cleaves

As the audience leaned closer with their spines the opposite of erected.

 

Thinking it would only be a mere trick,

The king felt flames leap closer to his face.

This thought itched at the orangutans like a tick:

Is death what I will soon embrace?

 

Before they could make any actions to escape,

Hop-Frog’s fire attached to flax and tar.

This led to skin and bone on every ape.

Screams from the audience were heard ten miles far.

 

In the heat of the moment, Hop-Frog and Tripetta left the room.

Flames in the place began to leap from one place to the other.

The two jesters gave the audience a conflict to groom

As they were never seen by any other.