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 XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:
Or, Fruitless Precaution.
While browzing by the Sea, a One-Ey'd Deer,
That thought she cou'd from thence no Danger fear,
Did, for her Safety, cautiously provide,
And tow'rds the Land still turn the Seeing-side.
A roving Fowler, whom she did not dread,
Found her Blind-side, and shot her thro' the Head.
The Beast thus wounded, her ill Fate bewail'd,
To find how all her vain Precaution fail'd:
Since where she fear'd most Harm, she none endur'd;
But suffer'd most, where she seem'd most secur'd.
That thought she cou'd from thence no Danger fear,
Did, for her Safety, cautiously provide,
And tow'rds the Land still turn the Seeing-side.
A roving Fowler, whom she did not dread,
Found her Blind-side, and shot her thro' the Head.
The Beast thus wounded, her ill Fate bewail'd,
To find how all her vain Precaution fail'd:
Since where she fear'd most Harm, she none endur'd;
But suffer'd most, where she seem'd most secur'd.
The MORAL.
‘Thus Things, whence most we Danger apprehend,‘By wondrous Turns, our Fortunes most befriend:
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‘Deceive our Caution, and procure our Woes.
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