STORY, STORY – THE PLANE TREE

“How useless is the Plane!” said one of them. “It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves.” “Ungrateful creatures!” said a voice from the Plane Tree. “You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!”

STORY, STORY – THE PLANE TREE
STORY, STORY – THE PLANE TREE

“How useless is the Plane!” said one of them. “It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves.”

“Ungrateful creatures!” said a voice from the Plane Tree. “You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!”