Meaningful Fable : "One Cicada, Neighbor Ant" (Jean de la Fontaine)
One Cicada having sung
Summer long,
Felt into deep lacking state
When fresh days did reach the gate :
Not even a little chip
Of slight lens nor candle snip.
She spread a word as she'd starve
Front close ant's door, place to carve,
Urging her to lend her fast
A few grain so she could last
Until the resumption clime.
« I will redeem you, no mime,
Fore harvest - she said crucial -
Interest ands principal. »
Neighbor Ant feared this gamble :
There lays her marginal fault.
« How did you spend neath heat vault ?
She said this risk's guest - rumble.
— Dark and day, forward comer
I did declaim, for your care.
— You did declaim ? So good fare :
Thus ! Yet, you might dance further. »