4 More Meaning

“This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.”

“Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America.”

“But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch.”

“And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow!”