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No flowery path to glory leads	B
This truth no better voucher needs	B
Than Hercules of mighty deeds	B
Few demigods the tomes of fable	C
Reveal to us as being able	C
Such weight of task work to endure	D
In history I find still fewer	E
One such however here behold	F
A knight by talisman made bold	F
Within the regions of romance	G
To seek adventures with the lance	G
There rode a comrade at his ride	H
And as they rode they both espied	H
This writing on a post	H
Wouldst see sir valiant knight	H
A thing whereof the sight	H
No errant yet can boast	H
Thou hast this torrent but to ford	H
And lifting up alone	I
The elephant of stone	I
Upon its margin shored	H
Upbear it to the mountain's brow	J
Round which aloft before thee now	J
The misty chaplets wreathe	K
Not stopping once to breathe	K
One knight whose nostrils bled	H
Betokening courage fled	H
Cried out 'What if that current's sweep	L
Not only rapid be but deep	L
And grant it cross'd pray why encumber	E
One's arms with that unwieldy lumber	E
An elephant of stone	I
Perhaps the artist may have done	M
His work in such a way that one	M
Might lug it twice its length	K
But then to reach yon mountain top	N
And that without a breathing stop	N
Were surely past a mortal's strength	K
Unless indeed it be no bigger	E
Than some wee pigmy dwarfish figure	E
Which one would head a cane withal	C
And if to this the case should fall	C
The adventurer's honour would be small	C
This posting seems to me a trap	O
Or riddle for some greenish chap	O
I therefore leave the whole to you '	-
The doubtful reasoner onward hies	G
With heart resolved in spite of eyes	G
The other boldly dashes through	P
Nor depth of flood nor force	G
Can stop his onward course	G
He finds the elephant of stone	I
He lifts it all alone	I
Without a breathing stop	N
He bears it to the top	N
Of that steep mount and seeth there	Q
A high wall'd city great and fair	Q
Out cried the elephant and hush'd	H
But forth in arms the people rush'd	H
A knight less bold had surely fled	H
But he so far from turning back	R
His course right onward sped	H
Resolved himself to make attack	R
And die but with the bravest dead	H
Amazed was he to hear that band	H
Proclaim him monarch of their land	H
And welcome him in place of one	M
Whose death had left a vacant throne	I
In sooth he lent a gracious ear	S
Meanwhile expressing modest fear	T
Lest such a load of royal care	Q
Should be too great for him to bear	Q
And so exactly Sixtus said	H
When first the pope's tiara press'd his head	H
Though is it such a grievous thing	U
To be a pope or be a king	U
But days were few before they read it	H
That with but little truth he said it	H
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Blind Fortune follows daring blind	H
Oft executes the wisest man	V
Ere yet the wisdom of his mind	H
Is task'd his means or end to scan	V

Jean De La Fontaine

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