The Stag At The Pool
Aesop Fable: The Stag At The Pool
A stag overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink.
Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly
admired the size and variety of his horns, but felt angry
with himself for having such slender and weak feet. While
he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the
pool and crouched to spring upon him.
The Stag immediately
took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long
as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a
safe distance from the Lion. But entering a wood he became
entangled by his horns, and the Lion quickly came
up to him and caught him.
When too late, he thus reproached
himself: "Woe is me! How I have deceived myself! These
feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in
these antlers which have proved my destruction."
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
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