Stew of Great Value

Once there was a young servant in the Court

 of the great and mighty Capital,

Who, on his short lunch Break, found

 a rare Pearl in his stew worth Thousands,

So he went and sold all that he had

 and bought the Pot,

And when that first Day was over, he went

 and buried his Future in an

 Abandoned college Field.

But when he went back to the little Town

 to redeem his Hopes,

He didn't have any more Money

With which to buy into that Field so

 Nothing else came of it.

[Times are hard down here

 for the barely-working Man.]

There was a headline on CNN.com yesterday titled, “Officer finds rare pearl in stew worth thousands”