The Lark Burying Her Father
Aesop Fable: The Lark Burying Her Father
The lark (according to an ancient legend) was created
before the earth itself, and when her father died, as there
was no earth, she could find no place of burial for him.
She
let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day,
not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own
head.
Hence she obtained her crest, which is popularly said
to be her father’s grave-hillock.
Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents.
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