French Tales

Fables Of La Fontaine

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The Hen With The Golden Eggs

How avarice loseth all,
By striving all to gain,
I need no witness call
But him whose thrifty hen,
As by the fable we are told,
Laid every day an egg of gold.
‘She hath a treasure in her body,’
Bethinks the avaricious noddy.
He kills and opens–vexed to find
All things like hens of common kind.
Thus spoil’d the source of all his riches,
To misers he a lesson teaches.
In these last changes of the moon,
How often doth one see
Men made as poor as he
By force of getting rich too soon!

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