The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)
Jean Pierre Claris de Florian, 1888. A chapter a page, in reading order.
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FABLE IX. THE IVY AND THE THYME. "How I do pity you, indeed,
My sorry, little trembling weed!"
Once said the ivy to the thyme. "You always creep and never climb.
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FABLE XII. THE PRINCE AND THE NIGHTINGALE. A young prince and his tutor stray'd
Through a grove for a promenade. There, as the time upon him hung
With heavy weight—
(Such is the usage of the great),
A bird beneath the foliage sung:
It was the charming nightingale.
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FABLE XVIII. THE KING OF PERSIA. Once on a time a Persian king
With all his court was at the chase. Becoming dry, he found no spring,
Nor any water in the place.
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FABLE XXII. THE OLD MAN'S ADVICE. "Please teach me how a fortune's made,"
A young man to his father said. The old man answer'd:—"There's a way
Which is glorious, I may say:
Though 'tis the way least understood;—
It is to serve the common good;
To give one's life, one's toil, one's care
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