The Fox

By Kahlil Gibran

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have
a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking
for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again—and he said, “A
mouse will do.”

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Black and white vintage image of the poet Khalil Gibran in his youth.

Though he considered himself to be mainly a painter, lived most of his life in the United States, and wrote his best-known works in English, Kahlil Gibran was the key figure in a Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the...

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Region:
- Middle East

The Fox

The Greater Sea

God

My Friend

The Scarecrow

The Sleep-Walkers

The Fox