"Get up! let us flee from the Foe,"
Said the Man: but the Ass said, "Why so?"
"Will they double my load,
Or my blows? Then, by goad,
And by stirrup, I've no cause to go."
Your Reasons Are Not Mine
The Ass & The Enemy
Walter Crane
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