The Sitter Still

I wish I could say I had discovered this poem before my obsession with drawing hares began but that's not the case. Whether hares symbolize good or bad luck is debated.  I consider them lucky especially as they become increasingly rare. Seamus Heaney translated a short Middle English text written in the late 13th century called "The Names of the Hare."The poem lists the seventy-seven names you should say to a hare to avoid bad luck if you happen to come across one.  “The stubble-stag, the long lugs, the stook-deer, the frisky legs, the wild one, the skipper, the hug-the-ground, the lurker, the race-the-wind, the skiver, the shag-the-hare, the hedge-squatter, the dew-hammer, the dew-hopper, the sit-tight, the grass-bounder, the jig-foot, the earth-sitter, the light-foot, the fern-sitter, the kail-stag, the herb-cropper, the creep-along, the sitter-still, the pintail, the ring-the-hill, the sudden start, the shake-the-heart, the belly-white, the lambs-in-flight.” This hare is the "Sitter