A Poetical Translation Of The Fables of Phaedrus With The Appendix of Gudius, And an accurate Edition of the Original on the opposite Page. To which is added, A Parsing Index For the Use of Learners. By Christopher Smart |
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FABLE VI. The Frogs and Sun.
When Esop saw, with inward grief,
The nuptials of a neigh'bring thief,
He thus his narrative begun—
The nuptials of a neigh'bring thief,
He thus his narrative begun—
Of old 'twas rumour'd that the Sun
Wou'd take a wife: with hideous cries
The quer'lous Frogs alarm'd the skies.
Mov'd at their murmurs, Jove inquir'd
What was the thing that they desir'd?
When thus a tenant of the lake,
In terror for his brethren spake.
“Ev'n now one Sun too much is found,
“And dries up all the pools around,
“Till we thy creatures perish here;
“But oh how dreadfully severe,
“Shou'd he at length be made a sire,
“And propagate a race of fire!”
Wou'd take a wife: with hideous cries
The quer'lous Frogs alarm'd the skies.
Mov'd at their murmurs, Jove inquir'd
What was the thing that they desir'd?
When thus a tenant of the lake,
In terror for his brethren spake.
“Ev'n now one Sun too much is found,
“And dries up all the pools around,
“Till we thy creatures perish here;
“But oh how dreadfully severe,
“Shou'd he at length be made a sire,
“And propagate a race of fire!”
A Poetical Translation Of The Fables of Phaedrus | ||