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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