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    Phaedrus, The Fables of Phaedrus (ed. Christopher Smart)

    Editions and translations: Latin (ed. L. Mueller) | English (ed. Christopher Smart)
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    The Frogs and Sun

    When Esop saw, with inward grief,
    The nuptials of a neighboring thief,
    He thus his narrative begun:
    Of old 'twas rumor'd that the Sun
    Would take a wife: with hideous cries
    The quer'lous Frogs alarm'd the skies.
    Moved at their murmurs, Jove inquired
    What was the thing that they desired?
    When thus a tenant of the lake,
    In terror, for his brethren spake:
    "Ev'n now one Sun too much is found,
    And dries up all the pools around,
    Till we thy creatures perish here;
    But oh, how dreadfully severe,
    Should he at length be made a sire,
    And propagate a race of fire !"

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    The Fables of Phaedrus Translated into English Verse. Phaedrus. Christopher Smart, A. M. London. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1913.


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