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Yet the hare, having decided on saving face,<br />
Quite easily managed to win the race.<br />
‘I feel,’ said the tortoise, ‘that I've been deceived,<br />
For fables are things I've always believed.<br />
I would love to have won a race so clearly designed<br />
To point out a moral both old and refined.’<br />
‘Losing a race would not matter,’ the hare said,<br />
‘For in speed Mother Nature placed me ahead.<br />
Some fables are things you ought to contest –<br />
Dear tortoise, in mine, I'm afraid you've come last.’
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