Crane: Hot and Cold

When to warm his cold fingers, man blew,
And again, but to cool the hot stew;
Simple Satyr, unused
To man's ways, felt confused,
When the same mouth blew hot and cold too.

AESOP AIMED AT DOUBLE-DEALING

Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 44.

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