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Thanks to Memory's daughters nine	A
Animals have graced my line	A
Higher heroes in my story	B
Might have won me less of glory	B
Wolves in language of the sky	C
Talk with dogs throughout my verse	D
Beasts with others shrewdly vie	C
Representing characters	E
Fools in furs not second hand	F
Sages hoof'd or feather'd stand	F
Fewer truly are the latter	G
More the former ay and fatter	G
Flourish also in my scene	H
Tyrants villains mountebanks	E
Beasts incapable of thanks	E
Beasts of rash and reckless pranks	E
Beasts of sly and flattering mien	H
Troops of liars too I ween	H
As to men of every age	I
All are liars saith the sage	I
Had he writ but of the low	J
One could hardly think it so	J
But that human mortals all	K
Lie like serpents great and small	K
Had another certified it	L
I for one should have denied it	L
He who lies in Aesop's way	M
Or like Homer minstrel gray	M
Is no liar sooth to say	M
Charms that bind us like a dream	N
Offspring of their happy art	O
Cloak'd in fiction more than seem	N
Truth to offer to the heart	O
Both have left us works which I	C
Think unworthy e'er to die	C
Liar call not him who squares	E
All his ends and aims with theirs	E
But from sacred truth to vary	B
Like the false depositary	B
Is to be by every rule	P
Both a liar and a fool	P
The story goes	E
	-
A man of trade	Q
In Persia with his neighbour made	Q
Deposit as he left the state	R
Of iron say a hundredweight	R
Return'd said he 'My iron neighbour '	-
'Your iron you have lost your labour	S
I grieve to say it 'pon my soul	T
A rat has eaten up the whole	T
My men were sharply scolded at	U
But yet a hole in spite of that	U
Was left as one is wont to be	B
In every barn or granary	S
By which crept in that cursed rat '	-
Admiring much the novel thief	V
The man affected full belief	V
Ere long his faithless neighbour's child	W
He stole away a heavy lad	X
And then to supper bade the dad	X
Who thus plead off in accents sad	X
'It was but yesterday I had	X
A boy as fine as ever smiled	W
An only son as dear as life	Y
The darling of myself and wife	Y
Alas we have him now no more	S
And every joy with us is o'er '	-
Replied the merchant 'Yesternight	W
By evening's faint and dusky ray	S
I saw a monstrous owl alight	W
And bear your darling son away	S
To yonder tott'ring ruin gray '	-
'Can I believe you when you say	S
An owl bore off so large a prey	S
How could it be ' the father cried	W
'The thing is surely quite absurd	W
My son with ease had kill'd the bird '	-
'The how of it ' the man replied	W
'Is not my province to decide	W
I know I saw your son arise	E
Borne through the air before my eyes	E
Why should it seem a strange affair	S
Moreover in a country where	S
A single rat contrives to eat	W
A hundred pounds of iron meat	W
That owls should be of strength to lift ye	B
A booby boy that weighs but fifty '	-
The other plainly saw the trick	Z
Restored the iron very quick	Z
And got with shame as well as joy	A2
Possession of his kidnapp'd boy	A2
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The like occurr'd two travellers between	H
One was of those	E
Who wear a microscope I ween	H
Each side the nose	E
Would you believe their tales romantic	Z
Our Europe in its monsters beats	E
The lands that feel the tropic heats	E
Surcharged with all that is gigantic	Z
This person feeling free	B
To use the trope hyperbole	B
Had seen a cabbage with his eyes	E
Exceeding any house in size	E
'And I have seen ' the other cries	E
Resolved to leave his fellow in the lurch	B2
'A pot that would have held a church	B2
Why friend don't give that doubting look	C2
The pot was made your cabbages to cook '	-
This pot discov'rer was a wit	W
The iron monger too was wise	E
To such absurd and ultra lies	E
Their answers were exactly fit	W
'Twere doing honour overmuch	B2
To reason or dispute with such	B2
To overbid them is the shortest path	D2
And less provocative of wrath	D2

Jean De La Fontaine

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