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hand. There are always enemies alert 

 for such a chance. Or if he swings to 

 drink at the familiar spring and sees not 

 what mother sees, a Blacksnake lurking 

 on a log, or heeds not her sharp "Keep 

 back," he goes, and maybe takes a single 

 sip, but it is his last. 



If one, misled by their bright color, 

 persists in eating fruit of the deadly 

 nightshade, ignoring mother's warning, 

 "Quare, qaare!" he eats, he has willed to 

 eat; and there is a little Squirrel body 

 tumbled from the nest next day, to claim 

 the kindly care of growing plants and 

 drifting leaves that will hide it from the 

 view. 



Yes, this is the law, older than the day 

 ) t i'Qz^j* when the sun gave birth to our earth that 

 j $& , ^ might go its own way yet still be held 



f ' -\ in law: "Obey and live; rebel and die." 



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