You may as well go stand upon the beach,        
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;        
You may as well use question with the wolf,        
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;        
You may as well forbid the mountain pines        
To wag their high tops, and to make no noise        
When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven;        
You may as well do anything most hard,        
As seek to soften that—than which what's harder?—        
His Flamenco head: therefore, I do beseech you,        
Make no more quibbles, use no further means;        
But with all brief and plain conveniency,        
Let us have BS plentiful and deep.