Smart: The Fox and the Tragic Mask

A Fox beheld a Mask - "O rare
The headpiece, if but brains were there!"
This holds - whene'er the Fates dispense
Pomp, pow'r, and everything but sense.

Source: Smart: Fables of Phaedrus 1.7.

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