{"sf1_id":222525,"sf2_id":"ZmMgEbq1","title":"In Seven","author":"The_Real_Threetails","words":299,"posted_at":"2011-02-15T07:49:00.000Z","tags":["Boar","Deadly","Error","Fox","Human","Lion","Peacock","Religion","Sin","Vixen","animals","beasts","seven"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/222525-in-seven","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmMgEbq1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/b3/82/b382fc0b-7e56-48c0-8eec-0661dbe82aac","description":"","content":"In the untamed wilds of old, as the solstice chilled the days,\n\nEach living thing knew hardship and adapted in their ways.\n\nThe boar would forage foremost, and the snow faced unafraid;\n\nBut man had thought himself better, and a glutton he was made.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd likewise was endowed in all the creatures of the earth,\n\nThe drive to hold tenaciously to life begun at birth.\n\nThus creatures took to hoarding, when foreseeing times of need,\n\nBut man's instinct was perverted, and expressed the sin of greed.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIn randy spring, in verdant days, another instinct grew,\n\nAs blossoms sprang their pollen forth and mingled in the dew.\n\nThe vixen called out loudly for the fox's eager thrust,\n\nBut man had thought himself better and invented the sin of lust.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIn burning heat of summer, though the seasons knew no halt,\n\nThe lion lay reclined against the blazing sun's assault.\n\nFor waste of time and energy the regal one was loath;\n\nBut man had thought himself better, and invented the sin of sloth.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThen creatures came together and began to live in bands,\n\nAnd fought as one to thus preserve their hard-won hunting lands.\n\nA wolf would show no mercy to a stranger on his path;\n\nBut man had thought himself better, and invented the sin of wrath.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSome creatures, then, became ornate, extravagant and bright,\n\nThe peacock for his splendor sacrificed the joy of flight.\n\nHis plumage iridescent would his progeny decide;\n\nBut man had thought himself better, and invented the sin of pride.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd thus from every creature man exalted all his kin,\n\nAssured in his dominion of the land and beasts therein.\n\nOne stain had man yet unabsolved by hoary-headed priests;\n\nMan's unique sin was envy toward the freedom of the beasts.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}