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Rain-Cloud On a bewitching night of monsoon, I pleaded with a rain-cloud:
'Ay! Wherefore are you thundering so much: Rain a bit slowly In a grave voice, the rain-cloud answered:
'Ye man! Having been sucked dry for your sake, we are just cautioning you, as you have still not absorbed our way. Sucking up the utterly saltish waters of the sea, we are spraying in return the sweet showers of monsoon, whereas, you sipping our delicious rain-drops, are exuding only the bitter pills of odium. I have accordingly come to adjure you to exude the sweet breath of divine ambrosia, swallowing deep the bitter pills of venom!
Enlightened Foe To form no foe is best; but having once made a foe who is enlightened, what is wrong after all in living cautiously with him rather than befriending a sheer dullard:
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