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32. The Enemy's Trumpeter Is Condemned
The enemy attacked the town
And burned the barns and houses down,
Then town folk won it back
again --
And also captured many men.
A trumpeter was in that pack
Whose stirring horn brought the attack,
But he demanded he go free
Since neither gun nor sword had
he.
You were the WORST of all of them,
They said:
It's you we most condemn!
Although you didn't seem to fight,
You stirred their savage appetite.
You claim your hands gave no
offense?
But you urged hearts to
violence!
For music's power is passing great
To move the heart to love or hate.
MORAL: Those who stir others to evil are the worst.
from the book Praying Your Story and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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