A new bedtime story

[Marta Russell]

>A new bedtime story.
>
>Once upon a time, there was a great and generous people who followed
>their greed and fell under the rule of an evil tyrant to their
>dismay. There came a time when, having cast off all their honor and
>ignoring their fondling gods, they chose a much weaker enemy in their
>arrogance and distain. The faithful chorus warned to no avail. Then on
>the eve of battle, they were abandoned by the gods. That night, in a
>bleak and desolate place their armies set forth not to meet their
>meager foe in the wilderness, but their own unworthy fate accompanied
>only by the wind...

I am glad that I do not have any young children to tell it to.
marta
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