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PART V

GERMAN FABLES

(Heinrich Heine. Translated by W. W. Story.)

THE COCK AND THE RAVEN

RAVEN rather thievishly inclined,

Went hopping here and there to pilfer

Such little god-sends, both of gold and silver

As he could find.

With seals, and watch-chains, trinkets, rings,

And fifty other pretty little things.

At last a grave old Cock, who saw,

At sundry times.

Our black transgressor of the law,

Commit these crimes;