"If string cannot sing then answer this riddle:
What sings as sweet as the strings of a fiddle?
The fiddlestring sings, but it can never throw
An arrow so far as the string of a bow.
But a bow plays a fiddle, and I'll marry thee,
If you give a bright bow of ribbon to me!"

-Brian Jacques, Pearls of Lutra

Just felt like sharing this. I thought it was a very clever use of language.