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A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine

by Jean de La Fontaine

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The Lion Beaten by the Man

    A picture once was shown,
        In which one man, alone,
    Upon the ground had thrown
    A lion fully grown.
  Much gloried at the sight the rabble.
  A lion thus rebuked their babble:—
      “That you have got the victory there,
    There is no contradiction.
  But, gentles, possibly you are
    The dupes of easy fiction:
Had we the art of making pictures,
Perhaps our champion had beat yours!”

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