Category: Poetry

Little Engel: a ballad; with a series of epigrams from the Persian

Borrow, George, 1803-1881 [Translator]; Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 [Editor]· 1 chapters· 2,454 words

Hear what once the pigmy clever To the stupid giant said: Things are not of highest value Which do highest rear their head; The sluggish horse is nothing better Than the donkey lowest bred.

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Hear what once the pigmy clever To the stupid giant said: Things are not of highest value Which do highest rear their head; The sluggish horse is nothing better Than the donkey...