The Fox And the Grapes by Joseph Lauren

The Fox And the Grapes

One sunner's day a fox was passing through

An orchard; faint he was and hungry, too.

When suddenly his keen eye chanced to fall

Upon a bunch of grapes above the wall.

"Ha! Just the thing!" he said. "Who could resist it!"

He eyed the purple cluster - jumped - and missed it.

"Ahem!" he coughed. "I'll take more careful aim,"

And sprang again. Results were much more the same,

Although his leaps were desperate and high.

At length he paused to wipe a tearful eye,

And shrug a shoulder. "I am not so dry,

And lunch is bound to come within the hour ...

Besides," he said, "I am sure those grapes are sour."

THE MORAL IS:

We somehow want the peach

That always dangles just beyond our reach;                  

Until we learn never to be upset

With what we find too difficult to get.

By:    Joseph Lauren