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To Madame Harvey	B
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Sound reason and a tender heart	C
With thee are friends that never part	C
A hundred traits might swell the roll	D
Suffice to name thy nobleness of soul	D
Thy power to guide both men and things	E
Thy temper open bland and free	B
A gift that draweth friends to thee	B
To which thy firm affection clings	E
Unmarr'd by age or change of clime	F
Or tempests of this stormy time	F
All which deserve in highest lyric	G
A rich and lofty panegyric	G
But no such thing wouldst thou desire	H
Whom pomp displeases praises tire	H
Hence mine is simple short and plain	I
Yet madam I would fain	I
Tack on a word or two	J
Of homage to your country due	J
A country well beloved by you	J
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With mind to match the outward case	K
The English are a thinking race	K
They pierce all subjects through and through	J
Well arm'd with facts they hew their way	L
And give to science boundless sway	L
Quite free from flattery I say	L
Your countrymen for penetration	M
Must bear the palm from every nation	M
For e'en the dogs they breed excel	N
Our own in nicety of smell	N
Your foxes too are cunninger	J
As readily we may infer	J
From one that practised 'tis believed	O
A stratagem the best conceived	O
The wretch once in the utmost strait	P
By dogs of nose so delicate	Q
Approach'd a gallows where	J
A lesson to like passengers	R
Or clothed in feathers or in furs	R
Some badgers owls and foxes pendent were	J
Their comrade in his pressing need	S
Arranged himself among the dead	T
I seem to see old Hannibal	U
Outwit some Roman general	U
And sit securely in his tent	V
The legions on some other scent	V
But certain dogs kept back	G
To tell the errors of the pack	G
Arriving where the traitor hung	G
A fault in fullest chorus sung	G
Though by their bark the welkin rung	G
Their master made them hold the tongue	G
Suspecting not a trick so odd	W
Said he 'The rogue's beneath the sod	W
My dogs that never saw such jokes	X
Won't bark beyond these honest folks '	-
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The rogue would try the trick again	Y
He did so to his cost and pain	I
Again with dogs the welkin rings	E
Again our fox from gallows swings	E
But though he hangs with greater faith	Z
This time he does it to his death	A2
So uniformly is it true	J
A stratagem is best when new	J
The hunter had himself been hunted	B2
So apt a trick had not invented	B2
Not that his wit had been deficient	C2
With that it cannot be denied	D2
Your English folks are well provision'd	D2
But wanting love of life sufficient	D2
Full many an Englishman has died	D2
One word to you and I must quit	D2
My much inviting subject	D2
A long eulogium is a project	D2
For which my lyre is all unfit	D2
The song or verse is truly rare	J
Which can its meed of incense bear	J
And yet amuse the general ear	J
Or wing its way to lands afar	J
Your prince once told you I have heard	D2
An able judge as rumour says	E2
That he one dash of love preferr'd	D2
To all a sheet could hold of praise	F2
Accept 'tis all I crave the offering	G
Which here my muse has dared to bring	G
Her last perhaps of earthly acts	G2
She blushes at its sad defects	H2
Still by your favour of my rhyme	F
Might not the self same homage please the while	I2
The dame who fills your northern clime	F
With wing d emigrants sublime	F
From Cytherea's isle	I2
By this you understand I mean	J2
Love's guardian goddess Mazarin	J2

Jean De La Fontaine

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