Poetry Friday -- Gracehoper

GracehoperPoor little ant, you work so hard and saveso much. So practical, constructing moundsof earth and stones and food and wealth; so bravein most things, coward where it really counts.And I the grasshopper -- you wouldn't takeme home to show to Mother, I who squanderall that Nature gave me. What I makeI toss away, I seem content to wanderon the earth you make your home beneath.I am