Friday, October 8, 2010

Crane: The Lazy Housemaids

Two Maids killed the Rooster whose warning
Awoke them too soon every morning:
But small were their gains,
For their Mistress took pains
To rouse them herself without warning.

LAZINESS IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 10.
Ancillae et Gallus

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