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Blotting of each shattered jewel.

Wretched Mother! Loud her cries

Lament the loss of Cupid's eyes,

Deafen all the Gods with this.

Jupiter and Nemesis,

Hell's dread Judges—every one—

Hear the clamourous plaint; her Son

Through jeering crowds his way would pick

Nor go a step without a stick:

Vengeance for this should not be spared;

The damage too should be repaired.

When all her tale the Gods had learned.

They passed their sentence. Ne'er again

Must Love and Folly part. The twain

Must walk henceforth in Friendship's grove

And Folly be the Guide of Love.

(La Fontaine, Fables, Vol. XII, No. 14. Translated by Paul Hookham.)

HE Elephant and Rhinoceros

Once on a time contended

For Sovereignty; they ended

By staking everything, for gain or loss.

On one decisive Combat in the lists.

A day for this they fixed, when news was brought

That some one had descried through cloudy mists

The Ape of Jupiter

Caduceus in hand, despatched, 'twas thought,