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20. The Bragging Candle Learns a Lesson
One night a candle glimmered bright,
And brilliantly sent forth his light
And beams around him spread,
Behold, I'm brighter than the sun
And moon and stars all heaped as one!
The bragging candle said.
Just then a wind (from heaven, no doubt)
Blew down and snuffed the candle out,
And darkness filled the night
Till someone lit the candle's wick
And said,
Be modest now, not thick:
No wind will ever snuff out
HEAVEN's light.
MORAL: Puffed up egotism is quickly deflated.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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