Aesop - The Crow and the Serpent lyrics

A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of d**h, the bird exclaimed: "O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction."