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22. The Grasshoppers Fail To Save For the Future
All summer long the ants had worked
To fill their homes with bread
So in the winter they could eat
When all the plants were dead.
But grasshoppers with violins
Played music on the lawn
Through summer nights and
danced as though
Tomorrow'd never dawn.
And when it snowed, the ants just ate
The bread they had in store
While grasshoppers with violins
Came hungry to their door.
How dumb we were,
the hoppers cried,
To not plan for tomorrow,
We'd have the life the ants
enjoy
And not this world of sorrow.
MORAL: Each day's first task is to plan for tomorrow.
from the book Praying Your Story and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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