| 1 | One hot day of summer, a Fox in great thirst was travelling across an orchard, |
| 2 | When he spotted a bunch of grapes ripening on a vine trained upon a lofty branch. |
| 3 | The Fox did declare: Oh what bounty! Verily you shall surely quench my thirst. |
| 4 | Yet try as he might, the Fox could not reach the grapes. |
| 5 | Once, twice, three times he sought the grapes and then surrendered to such quest. |
| 6 | As the Fox was departing the orchard, a Horse did enter and asked: Pray sir Fox you tell me, |
| 7 | I did observe you seek that bunch of grapes. Be they ripe and ready? |
| 8 | To which the Fox said thus: Do not waste your time stranger. For they be sour and full of misery. |