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16   Perception

The Fox and the Grapes

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