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To Monseigneur The Duke De Bourgogne	A
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Dear prince a special favourite of the skies	B
Pray let my incense from your altars rise	B
With these her gifts if rather late my muse	C
My age and labours must her fault excuse	D
My spirit wanes while yours beams on the sight	E
At every moment with augmented light	E
It does not go it runs it seems to fly	F
And he from whom it draws its traits so high	F
In war a hero burns to do the same	G
No lack of his that with victorious force	H
His giant strides mark not his glory's course	H
Some god retains our sovereign I might name	G
Himself no less than conqueror divine	A
Whom one short month made master of the Rhine	A
It needed then upon the foe to dash	I
Perhaps to day such generalship were rash	I
But hush they say the Loves and Smiles	J
Abhor a speech spun out in miles	J
And of such deities your court	K
Is constantly composed in short	K
Not but that other gods as meet	L
There hold the highest seat	L
For free and lawless as the rest may seem	M
Good Sense and Reason bear a sway supreme	M
Consult these last about the case	N
Of certain men of Grecian race	N
Who most unwise and indiscreet	L
Imbibed such draughts of poison sweet	L
As changed their form and brutified	L
Ten years the heroes at Ulysses' side	L
Had been the sport of wind and tide	L
At last those powers of water	O
The sea worn wanderers bore	P
To that enchanted shore	P
Where Circe reign'd Apollo's daughter	O
She press'd upon their thirsty lips	Q
Delicious drink but full of bane	A
Their reason at the first light sips	Q
Laid down the sceptre of its reign	A
Then took their forms and features	R
The lineaments of various creatures	R
To bears and lions some did pass	S
Or elephants of ponderous mass	S
While not a few I ween	A
In smaller forms were seen	A
In such for instance as the mole	T
Of all the sage Ulysses sole	T
Had wit to shun that treacherous bowl	T
With wisdom and heroic mien	A
And fine address he caused the queen	A
To swallow on her wizard throne	A
A poison somewhat like her own	A
A goddess she to speak her wishes dared	L
And hence at once her love declared	L
Ulysses truly too judicious	U
To lose a moment so propitious	U
Besought that Circe would restore	P
His Greeks the shapes that first they wore	P
Replied the nymph 'But will they take them back	V
Go make the proffer to the motley pack '	-
Ulysses ran both glad and sure	W
'That poisonous cup ' cried he 'hath yet its cure	W
And here I bring what ends your shame and pain	A
Will you dear friends be men again	A
Pray speak for speech is now restored '	-
'No ' said the lion and he roar'd	L
'My head is not so void of brains	X
Renounce shall I my royal gains	X
I've claws and teeth to tear my foes to bits	Y
And more than that I'm king	Z
Am I such gifts away to fling	Z
To be but one of Ithaca's mere cits	Y
In rank and file perhaps I might bear arms	Y
In such a change I see no charms '	-
Ulysses passes to the bear	A2
'How changed my friend from what you were	O
How sightly once how ugly now '	-
'Humph truly how '	-
Growl'd Bruin in his way	B2
'How else than as a bear should be I pray	B2
Who taught your stilted highness to prefer	O
One form to every other sir	O
Doth yours possess peculiar powers	Y
The merits to decide of ours	Y
With all respect I shall appeal my case	Y
To some sweet beauty of the bearish race	Y
Please pass it by if you dislike my face	Y
I live content and free from care	A2
And well remembering what we were	O
I say it plain and flat	L
I'll change to no such state as that '	-
Next to the wolf the princely Greek	C2
With flattering hope began to speak	C2
'Comrade I blush I must confess	Y
To hear a gentle shepherdess	Y
Complaining to the echoing rocks	Y
Of that outrageous appetite	L
Which drives you night by night	L
To prey upon her flocks	Y
You had been proud to guard her fold	L
In your more honest life of old	L
Pray quit this wolfship now you can	A
And leave the woods an honest man '	-
'But is there one ' the wolf replied	L
'Such man I own I never spied	L
You treat me as a ravenous beast	L
But what are you To say the least	L
You would yourself have eat the sheep	D2
Which eat by me the village weep	D2
Now truly on your faith confess	Y
Should I as man love flesh the less	Y
Why man not seldom kills his very brother	O
What then are you but wolves to one another	O
Now everything with care to scan	A
And rogue with rogue to rate	L
I'd better be a wolf than man	A
And need not change my state '	-
Thus all did wise Ulysses try	F
And got from all the same reply	F
As well from great as small	E2
Wild liberty was dear to all	E2
To follow lawless appetite	L
They counted their supreme delight	L
All banish'd from their thought and care	A2
The glorious praise of actions fair	A2
Where passion led they thought their course was free	F2
Self bound their chains they could not see	F2
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Prince I had wish'd for you a theme to choose	Y
Where I might mingle pleasantry with use	Y
And I should meet with your approving voice	Y
No doubt if I could make such choice	Y
At last Ulysses' crew	G2
Were offer'd to my view	G2
And there are like them not a few	G2
Who may for penalty await	L
Your censure and your hate	L

Jean De La Fontaine

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