Clown

CLOWN

-noun

1. a comic entertainer, usually grotesquely costumed and made up, appearing in the circus

2. any performer who elicits an amused response

3. someone who plays jokes or tricks

4. a person who acts in a comic or buffoon-like manner

5. a coarse clumsy rude person; boor

6. (archaic) a countryman or rustic

-verb (intr.)

7. to perform as a clown

8. to play jokes or tricks

9. to act foolishly

A man who clowns will never read 

Or ask the word

Or know the storm of heaven,
A vicious battle in a flower cast

A strange sea that drives the voice of water,

Both to light and shadow