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An Address To The Duke De La Rochefoucauld	B
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While watching man in all his phases	C
And seeing that in many cases	C
He acts just like the brute creation	D
I've thought the lord of all these races	C
Of no less failings show'd the traces	C
Than do his lieges in relation	D
And that in making it Dame Nature	E
Hath put a spice in every creature	E
From off the self same spirit stuff	F
Not from the immaterial	G
But what we call ethereal	G
Refined from matter rough	F
An illustration please to hear	H
Just on the still frontier	I
Of either day or night	B
Or when the lord of light	B
Reclines his radiant head	B
Upon his watery bed	B
Or when he dons the gear	I
To drive a new career	I
While yet with doubtful sway	J
The hour is ruled 'twixt night and day	J
Some border forest tree I climb	K
And acting Jove from height sublime	K
My fatal bolt at will directing	L
I kill some rabbit unsuspecting	L
The rest that frolick'd on the heath	M
Or browsed the thyme with dainty teeth	M
With open eye and watchful ear	H
Behold all scampering from beneath	M
Instinct with mortal fear	I
All frighten'd simply by the sound	B
Hie to their city underground	B
But soon the danger is forgot	B
And just as soon the fear lives not	B
The rabbits gayer than before	N
I see beneath my hand once more	N
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Are not mankind well pictured here	H
By storms asunder driven	D
They scarcely reach their haven	D
And cast their anchor ere	O
They tempt the same dread shocks	P
Of tempests waves and rocks	P
True rabbits back they frisk	Q
To meet the self same risk	Q
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I add another common case	R
When dogs pass through a place	R
Beyond their customary bounds	S
And meet with others curs or hounds	S
Imagine what a holiday	J
The native dogs whose interests centre	E
In one great organ term'd the venter	E
The strangers rush at bite and bay	J
With cynic pertness tease and worry	T
And chase them off their territory	T
So too do men Wealth grandeur glory	T
To men of office or profession	D
Of every sort in every nation	D
As tempting are and sweet	B
As is to dogs the refuse meat	B
With us it is a general fact	B
One sees the latest come attack'd	B
And plunder'd to the skin	U
Coquettes and authors we may view	V
As samples of the sin	U
For woe to belle or writer new	V
The fewer eaters round the cake	W
The fewer players for the stake	W
The surer each one's self to take	W
A hundred facts my truth might test	B
But shortest works are always best	B
In this I but pursue the chart	B
Laid down by masters of the art	B
And on the best of themes I hold	B
The truth should never all be told	B
Hence here my sermon ought to close	X
O thou to whom my fable owes	Y
Whate'er it has of solid worth	Z
Who great by modesty as well as birth	Z
Hast ever counted praise a pain	A2
Whose leave I could so ill obtain	A2
That here your name receiving homage	B2
Should save from every sort of damage	B2
My slender works which name well known	C2
To nations and to ancient Time	K
All France delights to own	C2
Herself more rich in names sublime	K
Than any other earthly clime	K
Permit me here the world to teach	D2
That you have given my simple rhyme	K
The text from which it dares to preach	D2

Jean De La Fontaine

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