Not a grasshoop to ring her, not an antsgrain of ore.

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'The Ant and the Grasshopper' is one of Aesop's fables and is parodied by Joyce in FW as the tale of the Ondt and the Gracehoper.

'grass' and 'grain of ore' are the tree and stone motif.