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 XLIV. The Herd:
Or, The Wish recall'd.
Missing a Calf intrusted to his Care,
The troubl'd Herd sought for it ev'ry-where;
And in his Search, from Jove implor'd Relief,
With Promise of a Kid, to find the Thief.
Led on by Hope, he through a Thicket press'd,
And found a Lion preying on his Beast:
Then scar'd, and trembling at the dreadful Sight,
He thus address'd the God, in dismal Fright:
I, who to find the Thief, a Kid did vow,
Wou'd give a Bull, I might avoid him now.
The troubl'd Herd sought for it ev'ry-where;
And in his Search, from Jove implor'd Relief,
With Promise of a Kid, to find the Thief.
Led on by Hope, he through a Thicket press'd,
And found a Lion preying on his Beast:
Then scar'd, and trembling at the dreadful Sight,
He thus address'd the God, in dismal Fright:
I, who to find the Thief, a Kid did vow,
Wou'd give a Bull, I might avoid him now.
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The MORAL.
‘Instable Mortals, who a Loss sustain,‘Teaze Heav'n with Pray'rs, till they the Thing regain:
‘When 'tis recover'd, it afflicts them more;
‘Now they grow tir'd, of what they sought before.
‘So Parents oft' Pray for their Childrens Life,
‘Which, more than Death, wou'd aggravate their Grief.
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