Monday, October 4, 2010

Crane: The Deer and The Lion

From the hounds the swift Deer sped away,
To his cave, where in past times he lay
Well concealed, unaware
Of a Lion couched there,
For a spring that soon made him his prey.

FATE CAN MEET AS WELL AS FOLLOW


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 47.
Cervus in Stabulo; Cervus Fugiens et Leo

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