The Power Of Fables Poem Rhyme Scheme

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To M De Barillon	A
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Can diplomatic dignity	B
To simple fables condescend	C
Can I your famed benignity	C
Invoke my muse an ear to lend	C
If once she dares a high intent	C
Will you esteem her impudent	C
Your cares are weightier indeed	C
Than listening to the sage debates	D
Of rabbit or of weasel states	D
So as it pleases burn or read	C
But save us from the woful harms	E
Of Europe roused in hostile arms	E
That from a thousand other places	F
Our enemies should show their faces	F
May well be granted with a smile	G
But not that England's Isle	G
Our friendly kings should set	C
Their fatal blades to whet	C
Comes not the time for Louis to repose	H
What Hercules against these hydra foes	H
Would not grow weary Must new heads oppose	H
His ever waxing energy of blows	H
Now if your gentle soul persuasive powers	I
As sweet as mighty in this world of ours	I
Can soften hearts and lull this war to sleep	J
I'll pile your altars with a hundred sheep	J
And this is not a small affair	K
For a Parnassian mountaineer	L
Meantime if you have time to spare	K
Accept a little incense cheer	L
A homely but an ardent prayer	K
And tale in verse I give you here	M
I'll only say the theme is fit for you	N
With praise which envy must confess	O
To worth like yours is justly due	N
No man on earth needs propping less	O
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In Athens once that city fickle	P
An orator awake to feel	Q
His country in a dangerous pickle	P
Would sway the proud republic's heart	C
Discoursing of the common weal	P
As taught by his tyrannic art	C
The people listen'd not a word	C
Meanwhile the orator recurr'd	C
To bolder tropes enough to rouse	R
The dullest blocks that e'er did drowse	R
He clothed in life the very dead	C
And thunder'd all that could be said	C
The wind received his breath	S
As to the ear of death	S
That beast of many heads and light	C
The crowd accustom'd to the sound	C
Was all intent upon a sight	C
A brace of lads in mimic fight	C
A new resource the speaker found	C
'Ceres ' in lower tone said he	B
'Went forth her harvest fields to see	B
An eel as such a fish might he	B
And swallow were her company	B
A river check'd the travellers three	B
Two cross'd it soon without ado	N
The smooth eel swam the swallow flew '	-
Outcried the crowd	C
With voices loud	C
'And Ceres what did she '	-
'Why what she pleased but first	C
Yourselves she justly cursed	C
A people puzzling aye your brains	R
With children's tales and children's play	P
While Greece puts on her steel array	P
To save her limbs from tyrant chains	R
Why ask you not what Philip does '	-
At this reproach the idle buzz	R
Fell to the silence of the grave	T
Or moonstruck sea without a wave	T
And every eye and ear awoke	U
To drink the words the patriot spoke	U
This feather stick in Fable's cap	V
We're all Athenians mayhap	V
And I for one confess the sin	A
For while I write this moral here	M
If one should tell that tale so queer	L
Ycleped I think The Ass's Skin	A
I should not mind my work a pin	A
The world is old they say I don't deny it	C
But infant still	P
In taste and will	P
Whoe'er would teach must gratify it	C

Jean De La Fontaine

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