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To Madame De La Sabli re	B
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A temple I reserved you in my rhyme	C
It might not be completed but with time	C
Already its endurance I had grounded	D
Upon this charming art divinely founded	E
And on the name of that divinity	F
For whom its adoration was to be	F
These words I should have written o'er its gate	G
TO IRIS IS THIS PALACE CONSECRATE	G
Not her who served the queen divine	H
For Juno's self and he who crown'd her bliss	I
Had thought it for their dignity I wis	I
To bear the messages of mine	H
Within the dome the apotheosis	J
Should greet th' enraptured sight	K
All heaven in pomp and order meet	L
Conducting Iris to her seat	L
Beneath a canopy of light	K
The walls would amply serve to paint her life	M
A matter sweet indeed but little rife	M
In those events which order'd by the Fates	N
Cause birth or change or overthrow of states	N
The innermost should hold her image	O
Her features smiles attractions there	P
Her art of pleasing without care	P
Her loveliness that's sure of homage	O
Some mortals kneeling at her feet	L
Earth's noblest heroes should be seen	Q
Ay demigods and even gods I ween	Q
The worshipp'd of the world thinks meet	L
Sometimes her altar to perfume	R
Her eyes so far as that might be	F
Her soul's rich jewel should illume	R
Alas but how imperfectly	F
For could a heart that throbb'd to bless	S
Its friends with boundless tenderness	J
Or could that heaven descended mind	T
Which in its matchless beauty join'd	U
The strength of man with woman's grace	V
Be given to sculptor to express	S
O Iris who canst charm the soul	W
Nay bind it with supreme control	W
Whom as myself I can but love	X
Nay not that word as I'm a man	Q
Your court has placed it under ban	Q
And we'll dismiss it pray approve	Y
My filling up this hasty plan	Q
This sketch has here received a place	V
A simple anecdote to grace	V
Where friendship shows so sweet a face	V
That in its features you may find	T
Somewhat accordant to your mind	T
Not that the tale may kings beseem	R
But he who winneth your esteem	R
Is not a monarch placed above	X
The need and influence of love	X
But simple mortal void of crown	Q
That would for friends his life lay down	Q
Than which I know no friendlier act	Z
Four animals in league compact	Z
Are now to give our noble race	V
A useful lesson in the case	V
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Rat raven tortoise and gazelle	A2
Once into firmest friendship fell	A2
'Twas in a home unknown to man	Q
That they their happiness began	Q
But safe from man there's no retreat	L
Pierce you the loneliest wood	B2
Or dive beneath the deepest flood	E
Or mount you where the eagles brood	C2
His secret ambuscade you meet	L
The light gazelle in harmless play	B
Amused herself abroad one day	B
When by mischance her track was found	D2
And follow'd by the baying hound	D2
That barbarous tool of barbarous man	Q
From which far far away she ran	Q
At meal time to the others	E2
The rat observed 'My brothers	E2
How happens it that we	F
Are met to day but three	F
Is Miss Gazelle so little steady	F
Hath she forgotten us already '	-
Out cried the tortoise at the word	F2
'Were I as Raven is a bird	F2
I'd fly this instant from my seat	L
And learn what accident and where	P
Hath kept away our sister fair	P
Our sister of the flying feet	L
For of her heart dear rat	G2
It were a shame to doubt of that '	-
The raven flew	H2
He spied afar the face he knew	H2
The poor gazelle entangled in a snare	P
In anguish vainly floundering there	P
Straight back he turn'd and gave the alarm	R
For to have ask'd the sufferer now	Q
The why and wherefore when and how	Q
She had incurr'd so great a harm	R
And lose in vain debate	G
The turning point of fate	G
As would the master of a school	I2
He was by no means such a fool	I2
On tidings of so sad a pith	J2
The three their council held forthwith	J2
By two it was the vote	K2
To hasten to the spot	L2
Where lay the poor gazelle	A2
'Our friend here in his shell	A2
I think will do as well	A2
To guard the house ' the raven said	M2
'For with his creeping pace	V
When would he reach the place	V
Not till the deer were dead '	-
Eschewing more debate	G
They flew to aid their mate	G
That luckless mountain roe	N2
The tortoise too resolved to go	N2
Behold him plodding on behind	T
And plainly cursing in his mind	T
The fate that left his legs to lack	O2
And glued his dwelling to his back	O2
The snare was cut by Rongemail	A2
For so the rat they rightly hail	A2
Conceive their joy yourself you may	B
Just then the hunter came that way	B
And 'Who hath filch'd my prey '	-
Cried he upon the spot	L2
Where now his prey was not	L2
A hole hid Rongemail	A2
A tree the bird as well	A2
The woods the free gazelle	A2
The hunter well nigh mad	P2
To find no inkling could be had	P2
Espied the tortoise in his path	Q2
And straightway check'd his wrath	Q2
'Why let my courage flag	R2
Because my snare has chanced to miss	I
I'll have a supper out of this '	-
He said and put it in his bag	R2
And it had paid the forfeit so	N2
Had not the raven told the roe	N2
Who from her covert came	R
Pretending to be lame	R
The man right eager to pursue	H2
Aside his wallet threw	H2
Which Rongemail took care	P
To serve as he had done the snare	P
Thus putting to an end	S2
The hunter's supper on his friend	S2
'Tis thus sage Pilpay's tale I follow	N2
Were I the ward of golden hair'd Apollo	N2
It were by favour of that god easy	F
And surely for your sake	T2
As long a tale to make	T2
As is the Iliad or Odyssey	F
Grey Rongemail the hero's part should play	A2
Though each would be as needful in his way	A2
He of the mansion portable awoke	U2
Sir Raven by the words he spoke	U2
To act the spy and then the swift express	S
The light gazelle alone had had th' address	S
The hunter to engage and furnish time	R
For Rongemail to do his deed sublime	R
Thus each his part perform'd Which wins the prize	V2
The heart so far as in my judgment lies	V2

Jean De La Fontaine

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