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39. A Donkey Thinks He Is Divine
A donkey once was led to town
With a statue of Zeus on his back,
When bystanders started bowing down,
He stopped and his jaw went slack.
I must be a god
, the donkey said,
How could all these people
misjudge?
So he flickered his eyes like a
holy sage
And brayed, and would not budge.
The driver's whip was quick to flash,
Correcting the donkey's fault,
And teaching that ass it's wise to take
All praise with a grain of salt.
MORAL: Be suspicious of too much deference.
from the book Praying Your Story and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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