Walking unarmed across a wooded waste,
Two travelers heard a bear.
One scrambled up a tree with frenzied haste;
The other could but stare,
Too old and plump to climb; then, with no sound,
Lay flat against a boulder, face to ground.
Tag: friend
The Sick Deer – AESOP’S FABLES (thoughtless friends are harmful than your enemies)
A deer was sick, and made her bed
Amid the meadow grass.
Then all around her thronged her friends –
The ox, the goat, the ass,
The sheep, the boar and many more –
A dense, imposing mass.