Classic Poem

A Fox, with reprobate design,
Invited home a Crane to dine,
And getting out a dish of stone,
The shallowest he chanced to own,
Poured into it a mess of soup.
The long-necked Crane began to stoop;
But every mouthful from his bill
Would bubble, sputter off, and spill;
At which the Fox, who knew a jest,
Laughed with complacency and zest.
The Crane, who wandered hungry home,
Thereafter asked the Fox to come,
And set a flagon on the ground
With narrow neck and bowl profound;
And easily inserting then
His head, he drank and drank again,
The Fox, unable to compete,
Admitted the retort was neat.

MORAL

You may be smart, but when you're through,
Others may be as smart as you.