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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 88
To the Heavenly Diadem
The world is full of mayhem We're better than Clem
You wonder - what is the stem? Maybe we ought not to contemn
Perhaps our lust for a gem, Or to condemn
Greed to have more than "Them," But pray to the diadem
Or belief . . . For grace at our . . . re•qui•em
Story 89
Tempted
The devil may attempt to tempt
Even those who hold sin in contempt
In other words no soul is exempt
For Satan may come even in a dream dreamt
Story 90
The Fox's Ken
The sly fox cannot always catch the flighty wren, so now and then he
must satisfy his yen for fowl with a plump hen.
He has the ken to wait til ten, when fast asleep are all the men. Then
he leaves his mountain den and comes down through the glen. When
all is clear, he steals into the chicken pen, clenches his teeth around a
hen, and takes off just as fast as he possibly can.
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