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 XX. The Birds and Beasts:
Or, Once False, still Mistrusted.
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Birds and Beasts their Strength in Battle try'd,
They press'd, and oft' were press'd on either side:
The Bot, who did his Fellows Weakness fear,
Deserted to the Beasts, and Listed there.
But soon the Birds made their Assailants yield,
And, by the Eagle's Conduct, gain'd the Field:
Then in Court-Martial doom'd the Renegade,
Who basely had the Common Cause betray'd,
To live all Day in some dark Hole confin'd,
And be no longer reckon'd of their Kind.
They press'd, and oft' were press'd on either side:
The Bot, who did his Fellows Weakness fear,
Deserted to the Beasts, and Listed there.
But soon the Birds made their Assailants yield,
And, by the Eagle's Conduct, gain'd the Field:
Then in Court-Martial doom'd the Renegade,
Who basely had the Common Cause betray'd,
To live all Day in some dark Hole confin'd,
And be no longer reckon'd of their Kind.
The MORAL.
‘He who his Friend's Misfortune will not bear,‘Deserves in his Success as little Share:
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‘Unfit for Humane Prospect, and the Light:
‘For 'tis a Maxim, Always to Distrust
‘The faithless Wretch who once has prov'd Unjust.
‘Since the base Soul, whom Honour cou'd not bind,
‘No Hostage for his future Faith can find.
‘But he, whose Friendship, free from Selfish Aim,
‘Remains, in all Vicissitudes, the same;
‘(As the sure Needle never fails its Pole,
‘Tho' Tempests rage, and swelling Billows roll)
‘Deserv'dly is by all Mankind approv'd,
‘And as he still is Faithful, still is lov'd:
‘His Steady Soul, in desp'rate Hazards try'd,
‘Makes all secure, who in his Truth confide.
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