The One-Eyed Doe
Aesop Fable: The One-Eyed Doe
A doe blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to
the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of
securing her greater safety.
She turned her sound eye towards
the land that she might get the earliest tidings of
the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards
the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation
of danger.
Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking
a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Yielding up
her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: "O wretched
creature that I am! to take such precaution against the
land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had
come for safety, so much more perilous."
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