<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sick Lion and the Ass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lion sunk by time's decay,<br>Too feeble grown to hunt his prey,<br>Observed his fatal hour draw nigh:<br>He drooped and laid him down to die.<br>There came by chance a savage boar,<br>Who trembled oft to hear him roar,<br>But when he saw him thus distressed<br>He tore and gored his royal breast.<br>A bull came next (ungen'rous foe),<br>Rejoiced to find him fall'n so low,<br>And with his horny-armed head<br>He aimed at once to strike him dead, - <br>He strikes, he wounds, he shocks in vain,<br>The lion still conceals his pain.<br>At length a base inglorious ass,<br>Who saw so many insults pass,<br>Came up and kicked him in the side:<br>'Twas this that raised the lion's pride.<br>He roused, and thus he spoke at length,<br>For indignation gave him strength:<br>Thou sorry, stupid, sluggish creature,<br>Disgrace and shame and scorn of nature!<br>You saw how well I could dispense<br>With blows from beasts of consequence!<br>They dignified the wounds they gave;<br>For none complain who feel the brave.<br>But you, the lowest of all brutes,<br>How ill your face with courage suits!<br>What dullness in thy looks appears!<br>I'd rather far (by heav'n 'tis true)<br>Expire by these than live by you:<br>A kick from thee is double death - <br>I curse thee with my dying breath!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Moral</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rebukes are easy from our betters,<br>From men of quality and letters;<br>But when low dunces will affront,<br>What man alive can stand the brunt?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426424" data-title="The Sick Lion and the Ass de Jonathan Swift" data-description="A lion sunk by time's decay, Too feeble grown to hunt his prey, Observed his fatal hour draw nigh: He drooped and laid him down to die. There came by chance a savage boar, Who trembled oft to hear him roar, But when he saw him thus distressed He t..."></div> </div> </div>

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