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Were I a pet of fair Calliope	B
I would devote the gifts conferr'd on me	B
To dress in verse old Aesop's lies divine	C
For verse and they and truth do well combine	C
But not a favourite on the Muses' hill	D
I dare not arrogate the magic skill	D
To ornament these charming stories	E
A bard might brighten up their glories	E
No doubt I try what one more wise must do	F
Thus much I have accomplish'd hitherto	F
By help of my translation	G
The beasts hold conversation	G
In French as ne'er they did before	H
Indeed to claim a little more	H
The plants and trees with smiling features	I
Are turn'd by me to talking creatures	I
Who says that this is not enchanting	J
'Ah ' says the critics 'hear what vaunting	J
From one whose work all told no more is	K
Than half a dozen baby stories '	-
Would you a theme more credible my censors	I
In graver tone and style which now and then soars	L
Then list For ten long years the men of Troy	M
By means that only heroes can employ	M
Had held the allied hosts of Greece at bay	N
Their minings batterings stormings day by day	N
Their hundred battles on the crimson plain	O
Their blood of thousand heroes all in vain	O
When by Minerva's art a horse of wood	P
Of lofty size before their city stood	P
Whose flanks immense the sage Ulysses hold	Q
Brave Diomed and Ajax fierce and bold	Q
Whom with their myrmidons the huge machine	R
Would bear within the fated town unseen	R
To wreak upon its very gods their rage	S
Unheard of stratagem in any age	S
Which well its crafty authors did repay	N
'Enough enough ' our critic folks will say	N
'Your period excites alarm	T
Lest you should do your lungs some harm	T
And then your monstrous wooden horse	U
With squadrons in it at their ease	E
Is even harder to endorse	U
Than Renard cheating Raven of his cheese	E
And more than that it fits you ill	D
To wield the old heroic quill '	-
Well then a humbler tone if such your will is	K
Long sigh'd and pined the jealous Amaryllis	V
For her Alcippus in the sad belief	W
None save her sheep and dog would know her grief	W
Thyrsis who knows among the willows slips	X
And hears the gentle shepherdess's lips	X
Beseech the kind and gentle zephyr	Y
To bear these accents to her lover	Y
'Stop ' says my censor	Y
'To laws of rhyme quite irreducible	D
That couplet needs again the crucible	D
Poetic men sir	Y
Must nicely shun the shocks	Z
Of rhymes unorthodox '	-
A curse on critics hold your tongue	J
Know I not how to end my song	J
Of time and strength what greater waste	A2
Than my attempt to suit your taste	A2
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Some men more nice than wise	B2
There's nought that satisfies	B2

Jean De La Fontaine

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