Aesop's Fables: The Eagle and the Arrow

An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death.

Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it.

Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes.

"Alas!" it cried, as it died,

"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

eagle: águila
whizz: zumbido
arrow: flecha
wounded: herido
flutter: revolotear
life-blood: sangre vital
pour: manar
pierce: atravesar, perforar
shaft: ástil
feathered: adornado con plumas
means: medios