Aesop's Fables

#23 The Astronomer

An Astronomer used to go out a night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he accidentally fell into a deep well.

While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?"