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Back and forth through the dark, each shouted his word.

Till their quarrel awakened the early bird.

“You three noisy things, you are all related,”

She said to the worm and promptly ate it.

With a snap of her bill she finished the fly,

And the lightning bug was the last to die.

All glowers and glimmerers, there’s a moral:

Shine if you must, but do not quarrel.

–Maxine Kumin
promptly : immediately

without waiting

Have you ever fought with

your friends or neighbours?

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