A Parable (poem 1898)
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
A Parable is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Morning Post on 23 may 1898.
Conan Doyle wrote another poem with the same name A Parable published in 1919.
Editions
- in Pen and Pencil (june 1898 [UK]) facsimile of manuscript
- in Songs of Action (8 june 1898-1916, Smith, Elder & Co. [UK])
- in Songs of Action (august 1898, Charles Scribner's Sons [US])
- in Songs of Action (september 1898, Doubleday, Page & Co. [US])
- in Buffalo Evening News (29 september 1898 [US])
- in Scranton Tribune (3 october 1898 [US])
- in Harrisburg Star-Independent (13 october 1898 [US])
- in The Duluth News Tribune (17 december 1898 [US]) as The Easiest Solution
- in The Los Angeles Times (21 december 1898 [US]) as The Easiest Solution
- And more than 50 other US newspapers...
- in Daily Mirror (12 july 1904 [UK]) as Sir Conan Doyle's Parable
- in Songs of Action (1918-1920, John Murray [UK])
- in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (1922-1928, John Murray [UK])
Adaptations
Comics
- 2002 : A Parable, by Neale Blanden
A Parable
The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter.
They argued it long and they argued it strong,
And I hear they are arguing now;
But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese,
Not one of them thought of a cow.
