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Fables in Song

By Robert Lord Lytton

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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I.

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I.

I. THE THISTLE.

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V.

VI.

II.

II. POSSESSION.

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III.

III. WHO'S IN THE RIGHT?

PRELUDE.

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II.

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IV.

IV. PREMATURITY.

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V. ANCIENTS AND MODERNS.

VI.

VI. A PROVISION FOR LIFE.

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VII.

VII. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS; OR, THE FAR.

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I.

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IV.

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VIII.

VIII. A WHEAT-STALK; OR, THE NEAR.

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VI.

VII.

IX.

IX. THE ASS AND THE WAGTAIL.

X.

X. THE MISANTHROPE AND THE BIRD.

XI.

XI. FORTUNE AND HER FOLLOWERS.

XII.

XII. COMPOSURE.

XIII.

XIII. SIC ITUR.

XIV.

XIV. DIOGENES OR ALEXANDER?

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XVI.

XVI. THE RAINPOOL.

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II.

III.

IV.

XVII.

XVII. CONTAGION.

XVIII.

XVIII. AURORA CLAIR.

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XIX.

XIX. LOST TREASURES.

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II.

III.

XX.

XX. CHASSÉ-CROISÉ.

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XXI.

XXI. A PHILOSOPHER.

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XXII.

XXII. ONLY A SHAVING.

XXIII.

XXIII. THE LAST CRUISE OF THE ARROGANT; OR NO COMPROMISE.

XXIV.

XXIV. KNOWLEDGE AND POWER.

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XXV.

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III.

XXVI.

XXVI. DE PROFUNDIS.

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XXVII.

XXVII. “GO ON, I'LL FOLLOW THEE!”

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II.

III.

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XXVIII.

XXVIII. THE EAGLE AND HIS COMPANIONS;

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II.

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XXIX.

XXIX. FIAT JUSTITIA.

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CANTO THE FIRST.—THEORY.

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CANTO THE SECOND.—PRACTICE.

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CANTO THE THIRD.—EXPERIENCE.

XXX.

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XXXI.

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II.

III.

XXXII.

XXXII. A PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.

XXXIII.

XXXIII. VALOUR.

XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXV. QUESTIONABLE CONSOLATION.

XXXVI.

XXXVI. FORGIVE AND FORGET.

XXXVII.

XXXVII. THE MOUNTAINS OF TIME.

XXXVIII.

XXXVIII. CONSERVATION OF FORCE.

XXXIX.

XXXIX. HOMERIDES.

XL.

XL. POINTS DE VUE—POINT DE VUE.

XLI.

XLI. PYRRHONISM,

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XLII.

XLII. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MARSH.

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XLIII.

XLIII. TELEOLOGY.

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XLIV.

XLIV. COGITO ERGO SUM.

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XLV.

XLV. PHILOSOPHY OF THE LITTLE.

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XLVI.

XLVI. MASTER AT HOME.

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XLVII.

XLVII. THE PLANE AND THE PENKNIFE.

XLVIII.

XLVIII. THE DRAG AND THE WHEEL.

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XLIX.

XLIX. A HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL.

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III.

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L.

L. THE ROSE AND THE BRAMBLE.

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LI.

LI. DUCUNT VOLENTEM FATA: NOLENTEM TRAHUNT.

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LII.

LII. SUUM CUIQUE.

LIII.

LIII. THE TWO TRAVELLERS;

LIV.

LIV. AN ILL-ASSORTED COUPLE.

LV.

LV. BETWEEN HAMMER AND ANVIL.

LVI.

LVI. HOMO HOMINI LUPUS.

LVII.

LVII. THE HORSE AND THE FLY.

LVIII.

LVIII. ET CÆTERA ET CÆTERA.

LIX.

LIX. MONUMENTUM ÆRE PERENNIUS.

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LX.

LX. SANS SOUCI.

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VII.

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PRELUDE.

A battery, posted in haste, at last,
On the brow of a hill in the foeman's flank,
Had decided the fate of the day. Fast, fast,
In many a broken and billowy rank
The bewilder'd rear of his battle fled.
But, rapid behind, like a rushing wind
That rattles with hail, to the lowland red
Down from the ridge of the smoky hill,
The cavalry clash'd in a clattering shower;
Crushing the harvest, and chasing still
All that was left of a nation's power.

And wide it swept over the wasted plain,
That rapture of ruin, red in the glare
Of burning barns; and the bolted rain
Sang thro' the blacken'd and sulphurous air,
As in storm it stream'd and subsided again;

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Till all was still save the far-off blare
Of a ghostly bugle, echoing chill;
Whose echoes, heard by the yet unslain
O'er leagues of litter, from hill to hill
Proclaim'd that the hurly-burly was done:
A kingdom lost and a kingdom won!