A Lay Sung at the Feast (7)

    Then spake the Consul Aulus, He spake a bitter jest： ``Once the jays sent a message Unto the eagle's nest：—— Now yield thou up thine eyrie Unto the carrion-kite, Or come forth valiantly, and face

    The jays in deadly fight.—— Forth looked in wrath the eagle； carrion-kite and jay, Soon as they saw his beak and claw,screaming far away.'' And Fled