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Of fables judge not by their face	B
They give the simplest brute a teacher's place	B
Bare precepts were inert and tedious things	C
The story gives them life and wings	C
But story for the story's sake	D
Were sorry business for the wise	E
As if for pill that one should take	D
You gave the sugary disguise	E
For reasons such as these	F
Full many writers great and good	G
Have written in this frolic mood	H
And made their wisdom please	F
But tinsel'd style they all have shunn'd with care	I
With them one never sees a word to spare	I
Of Phaedrus some have blamed the brevity	J
While Aesop uses fewer words than he	J
A certain Greek however beats	K
Them both in his larconic feats	K
Each tale he locks in verses four	L
The well or ill I leave to critic lore	L
At Aesop's side to see him let us aim	M
Upon a theme substantially the same	M
The one selects a lover of the chase	B
A shepherd comes the other's tale to grace	B
Their tracks I keep though either tale may grow	N
A little in its features as I go	N
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The one which Aesop tells is nearly this	O
A shepherd from his flock began to miss	O
And long'd to catch the stealer of his sheep	P
Before a cavern dark and deep	P
Where wolves retired by day to sleep	P
Which he suspected as the thieves	Q
He set his trap among the leaves	Q
And ere he left the place	B
He thus invoked celestial grace	B
'O king of all the powers divine	R
Against the rogue but grant me this delight	S
That this my trap may catch him in my sight	S
And I from twenty calves of mine	R
Will make the fattest thine '	-
But while the words were on his tongue	T
Forth came a lion great and strong	U
Down crouch'd the man of sheep and said	V
With shivering fright half dead	V
'Alas that man should never be aware	I
Of what may be the meaning of his prayer	I
To catch the robber of my flocks	W
O king of gods I pledged a calf to thee	J
If from his clutches thou wilt rescue me	J
I'll raise my offering to an ox '	-
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'Tis thus the master author tells the story	J
Now hear the rival of his glory	J

Jean De La Fontaine

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