Truth in Fiction Or, Morality in Masquerade. A Collection of Two hundred twenty five Select Fables of Aesop, and other Authors. Done into English Verse. By Edmund Arwaker |
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FABLE XIX. The Geese and Cranes:
Or, Poverty and Security.
Some
Geese and Cranes, by tempting Plenty led,
Chose a rich Field, and at Discretion fed;
'Till, by the noisie Cacklings which they made,
Their Haunt was to the injur'd Hind betray'd:
He soon attack'd them; but the Cranes were light,
And shun'd his Fury, by an easie Flight:
While, by their weight, the Geese retarded, stay,
And, with their Lives, for all the Trespass pay.
Chose a rich Field, and at Discretion fed;
'Till, by the noisie Cacklings which they made,
Their Haunt was to the injur'd Hind betray'd:
He soon attack'd them; but the Cranes were light,
And shun'd his Fury, by an easie Flight:
While, by their weight, the Geese retarded, stay,
And, with their Lives, for all the Trespass pay.
The MORAL.
‘The Rich, by Fortune too much pamper'd, owe‘Their Ruin to the Bulk to which they grow:
‘While Wealth's bright Charms invite the Plund'rer's Rape,
‘Its gross Incumbrance hinders an Escape:
‘But Poor Men find, in Indigence, Relief,
‘Their Nothing, baulks the Tyrant and the Thief.
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