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 Rh THE COCK AND THE PEARL

(La Fontaine, Fables, Vol. I, No. 20. Translated by Elizur Wright, Jr.)

THE OAK AND THE REED

HE Oak one day said to the Reed,

"Good cause have you your hapless lot to mourn.

To you a clinging Wren's a load indeed;

The least wind that is born.

Ruffling the stream, bids you take heed

To make obeisance low;

While my proud top, for Caucasus a match.

The arrowy sun-shafts not content to catch.