Quote from King Midas

King Midas: The Golden Touch

by Demi

Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York, New York    © 2002    48 pp.


Long ago the ancient Greeks 
believed their gods were in the sky 
and the winds, the seas and the 
mountains--in everything.
The people prayed to the gods
for wisdom and power,
knowledge and generosity,
and moderation in all 
their ways.

There reigned in Phrygia a king named Midas.
He was weak and ignorant, miserly and greedy. And
he didn't think he needed to pray to the gods at all.
Everything King Midas did was backward.




-- submitted by Jennifer Knight


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