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=== The Blind Man and the Lame === [[File:Emblemata saecurlaria 46.jpg|thumb|175px|"[[The Blind Man and the Lame]]", from [[Johann Theodor de Bry|de Bry]]'s ''Emblemata saecularia'', 1596]] A [[blindness|blind]] man was carrying a [[lameness|lame]] man on his back,<br> And everything was going well, everything's on track,<br> When the blind man decides to take it into his head<br> That he needn't listen to all that the lame man said.<br> "This stick I have will guide the two of us safe," said he,<br> And though warned by the lame man, he plowed into a [[tree]]. <br> On they proceeded; the lame man now warned of a [[stream|brook]];<br> The two survived, but their possessions a soaking took.<br> At last the blind man ignored the warning of a drop,<br> And that was to turn out their final and fatal stop.<br> :Which of the two travelers, you may ask, was to blame? Why, 'twas both the heedless blind man and the trusting lame.
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