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The Master's Eye
2023-12-05A stag having fled into an oxen stableAt first was warned by themTo seek better shelter elsewhere.'Brothers,' said he to them, 'do not bet...
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Jupiter and the Sharecropper
2023-12-05Jupiter had a farm to rent And bade Mercury have people present Themselves upon the appointed day; To make their offers and see what may. Things went ...
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The Old Man and The Ass
2023-12-05An Old Man and his Ass were riding one dayAnd spied a lush meadow at the side of the way.The man let go the reins and the grizzled* one racedOut into ...
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The Stag who Admired his Reflection
2023-12-05A vain stag saw himself reflectedWhile standing in a crystal pool.His antlers like a thicket spreadBut when he looked below he ruedThe sight of his na...
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The Sun and the Frogs
2023-12-05The day the tyrant married, his subjects celebrated.They feasted and drank jugs of wine,But only Aesop could divineThat they had little cause to be el...
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The Villager and the Serpent
2023-12-05Aesop tells of a peasantCharitable, but not too wiseOne winter's day was travelingAround the land he tended.He saw a serpent stretched out in the ...
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The Dog Who Lost His Prey for a Shadow
2023-12-05People fool ourselves in this world;Chasing after shadowsSo numerous are they that often,We cannot count the number.Let us look at the dog of which Ae...
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THE FIR TREE
2023-12-05FAR down in the forest, where the warm sun and the freshair made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree;and yet it was not happy, it wis...
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THE FLAX
2023-12-05THE flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blueflowers as delicate as the wings of a moth, or even more so.The sun shone, and the showers watere...
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THE GARDEN OF PARADISE
2023-12-05THERE was once a king's son who had a larger and morebeautiful collection of books than any one else in the world,and full of splendid copper-plat...