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A creature made of many eyes and ears,

all over every limb and every face,

shared from each eye both joy and tender tears,

and with each ear each whispered word would chase.

Though shy, at first, to see such a strange thing,

nigh everyone who met him loved to see

his countless lobes and lashes approaching,

for they knew: “he has come to learn of me!”

And learn he did. And from one gracious mouth

he asked, and asked, and prodded, and could pry

with such a sweetness that it ne’er went south,

even if some of his questions were wry.

He is the Curious! And he is friend

to all, and, to all, his eyes and ears bend.

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So long it’s been—so long since when I knew

that joy that rivals no other I’ve known:

that most-fulfilling, daring thing I do,

in which my greatest achievements are shown.

So long since working on my greatest goals,

the ones I will be proudest of when dead,

which light my feet as hot as fiery coals

more, even, than divinely-induced dread.

So long since bold adventure’s holy fire

lit up my heart to stoke the joy it keeps.

So long since I was filled with that sweet ire

that all my fondest gains and rewards reaps.

So long since I, agape in my best cape,

have skilled, or bossed, or quested in RuneScape!