So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed
aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and
the Moon like a flower of gold.       Yet, after that they had
laughed they became sad, for they remembered their poverty, and
one of them said to the other, 'Why did we make merry, seeing
that life is for the rich, and not for such as we are? Better
that we had died of cold in the forest, or that some wild beast
had fallen upon us and slain us.'       'Truly,' answered his
companion, much is given to some, and little is given to others.
Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal
division of aught save of sorrow.'       But as they were
bewailing their misery to each other this strange thing
happened. There fell from heaven a very bright and beautiful
star. It slipped down the side of the sky, passing by the other
stars in its course, and, as they watched it wondering, it
seemed to them to sink behind a clump of willow-trees that stood
hard by a little sheep-fold no mor