And it lies there wrapt in silence yet.


The Grasshopper and the Ant

"Ant, look at me!" a young grasshopper said,

As nimbly he sprang from his green, summer-bed,

"See how I'm going to skip over your head,

And could o'er a thousand like you!

Ant, by your motion alone, I should judge

That Nature ordained you a slave and a drudge,