The Three Beggars
"Though to my feathers i,
I have stood here from break of day.
I have not found a thing to eat,
For only rubbish es my way.
Am I to live on lebeen-lone?
Muttered the old e of Gort.
"For all my pains on lebeen-lone?
King Guaire walked amid his court
The palace-yard and river-side
And there to three old beggars said,
"You that have wandered far and wide
ravel out whats in my head.
Do men who least desire get most,
et the most who most desire?
A beggar said, "They get the most
Whom man or devil ot tire,
And what could make their muscles taut
Unless desire had made them so?
But Guaire laughed with secret thought,
"If that be true as it seems true,
One of you three is a rich man,
For he shall have a thousand pounds
Who is first asleep, if but he
Sleep before the third noon sounds."
And thereon, merry as a bird
With his old thoughts, King Guaire went
From river-side and palace-yard
Ahem to their argument.
"And if I win, one beggar said,
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