Thursday, October 7, 2010

Crane: Horse and Man

When the Horse first took Man on his back,
To help him the Stag to attack,
How little his dread,
As the enemy fled,
Man would make him his slave and his hack.

ADVANTAGES MAY BE DEARLY BOUGHT


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 16.
Cervus, Equus & Homo; Asinus in Prato

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