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15. A Farmer Kills the Goose Who Lays Golden Eggs
A lucky farmer had a goose
That every single day
Would lay one perfect golden egg,
And hide it in the hay.
Each day the farmer found the
egg
And took it to the town
And got good money for his egg
and grew in wide renown.
It's not enough,
the farmer said,
I think I do surmise
That goose has pounds of gold inside
Just judging from his size.
He killed the goose and looked
within
That goose's guts and fuzz,
But nothing did he find at all
Except--how Dumb he was.
MORAL: Don't let the perfect destroy the good.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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