The Ambitious Rock

It was a jagged rock Mmt lay upon an ooean'a bed, And watched the mighty vessels pass above his hauglity liead And much he boasled, did the rock, tliat "hc v!is in the swlm," For all the HtHe barnacles were so attached to him. "Could I but raise mysolf a foot," he argned, "in the sen, I'm very sure I'd strike n ship and sbe'd be goue on me." He struggled upvvard, in bis pride, until a ïlnnl ."-hove Did mke a slifjlit impresslou du a vcssel just above. "At last Tve mallo a hit," cried be, but short his trlumpli lasted, For divers come wltli dynamite and his carecr was blasted. MORAL: Oh, litlie man of big conceit, wlio tliink yourself a wonder, Pray be content to brag aud boast, for so you will not blunder. But if you try to interfere with great nicii, why, you're fated ïo be a iittle nuisanco and as such to be abated.