The Wolf and the Shepherds
The powerful too oft abuse
Rights, which to others they refuse.
A prowling Wolf one evening put
His muzzle in a Shepherd's hut;
And there at table saw them seated,
To a young lamb's fat quarter treated.
"Aye, aye, 'tis very well," said he;
"Did you at such a feast find me,
The country up in arms would be."
The Storks and the Geese
The least to carry off who have
Themselves from danger readiest save.
Some Storks and Geese a farmer found
Marauding on his new-sown ground;
The lean Storks flying straight away.
Left the fat Geese the score to pay.
The Eagle and the Snail
An Eagle, thro' the air on sail,
On a high rock descried a Snail.
"How cam'st thou on this lofty steep?"
He said. "Sir," says the Snail, "I creep."
How many a reptile do we see
Crawl, where he ne'er was made to be!
The Ass, the Ape and the Mole
They who their sorrows most bemoan
May find worse miseries than their own.
An Ass his want of horns bewails;
An Ape that Apes are short of tails;
"What would you say," a Mole replies,
"Were you, like me, depriv'd of eyes?"
The Eagle and the Serpent
An Eagle, on the wing for prey.
Observed a Snake that sleeping lay,
And seiz'd him in her claws; the Snake
Us'd his last force revenge to take.
Dying, he writh'd his body round,
And gave his foe a mortal wound.
Tyrants will oft their ruin find
In ills for others they designed.
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