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Fables in Song

By Robert Lord Lytton

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When little kings, whose race was run
A little while ago,
Had little thrones to sit upon,
And little else to do,
Within a little town, remote
From Europe's larger scenes,
There dwelt a man of little,
Who lived on little means.