ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. One day, when the young ladies were of age to be married, a terrible, three-headed dragon laid siege to the kingdom, burning villages with fiery breath. It spoiled crops and burned churches. It killed babies, old people, and everyone in between. The king promised a princess’s hand in marriage to whoever slayed the dragon. Heroes and warriors came in suits of armor, riding brave horses and bearing swords and arrows. One by one, these men were slaughtered and eaten. Finally the king reasoned that a maiden might melt the dragon’s heart and succeed where warriors had failed. He sent his eldest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon listened to not a word of her pleas. It swallowed her whole. Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. Swallowed her before she could get a word out. The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished. No indeed. The dragon simply ate her. The king was left aching with regret. He was now alone in the world. Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?
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CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w... E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort... E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you like everyb... E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses... E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm E. E. CUMMINGS