Dall'uovo di Pasqua
è uscito un pulcino
di gesso arancione
col becco turchino.
Ha detto: "Vado,
mi metto in viaggio
e porto a tutti
un grande messaggio".
E volteggiando
di qua e di là
attraversando
paesi e città
ha scritto sui muri,
nel cielo e per terra:
"Viva la pace,
abbasso la guerra".
Gianni Rodari


Sonetto XX
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
William Shakespeare
