F O X

In this German children’s song
the fox who stole the goose
is told that he must give it back,
or he will surely lose:

“Fox, it’s you who stole the goose.
We know you are the one.
Give it back or else the hunter
will get you with his gun.”

‘Goose’ means ‘Gans’
And ‘whole’ means ‘ganz’.
Both are pronounced the same.
And ‘Fuchs’ is ‘fox’, or 666.
You know what’s in a name.

Fox: “Do you think that I alone stole the one and only?
Is, then, one goose the whole wide world?
I guess you think I’m lonely.”

“Fox, we know that it is you
who
without asking, without blinking
grabs hold of the entirety, amazingly still thinking
that you’re a hero.
However, soon you must admit
that even you with all your wit can’t stand alone.
The whole and one must live as one, and surely you will grant,
it’s only when one sees himself within the whole
that one can sow and plow and plant.
So come now, fox, since you are known as 666,
your belly grown,
be so good, in your good time
restore the whole and end this rhyme.”