September Readings

The Pasture by Robert Frost

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss

Damon and Pythias by Cicero

A Wayfaring Song by Henry Van Dyke

The Human Touch by Spencer Michael Free

Keep Friendships in Constant Repair by James Boswell

A Time to Talk by Robert Frost

Thinking on Friendship by Nicomachean Ethics

Childhood and Poetry by Pablo Neruda

The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Legacy by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams 


The Bear and the Travelers
by Aesop

Two Travelers were on the road together, when a Bear suddenly appeared on the scene. Before he observed them, one made for a tree at the side of the road, and climbed up into the branches and hid. The other was not so nimble as his companion; and, as he could not escape, he threw himself on the ground and pretended to be dead. The Bear came up and sniffed all round him, but he kept perfectly still and held his breath; for they say that a bear will not touch a dead body. The Bear took him for a corpse, and went away. When the coast was clear, the Traveler in the tree came down, and asked the other what it was the Bear had whispered to him when he put his mouth to his ear. The other replied, "He told me never again to travel with a friend who deserts you at the first sign of danger."

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friendship.

Mending Wall
by Robery Frost
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.....
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again....
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.".....
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall......
 

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