“Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864), Gustave Moreau, what do they know about the Sphinx and what remains to be understood of the classical griffin, you understand, here we return to the land of imagination:

“If an Owl came to you

“Like the Sphinx painted here

“And the Owl told you

“To do otherly

“Than you had been doing

“At that moment verily

“And if you had encountered the Owl

“By the Sea

“And then perhaps maybe

“You had understood

“The category

“Of issue

“When the Winged Being

“Does find

“The time

“To pay

“You special mind

“You do understand

“This is about euhemerism again