A Beauty of Thebes and Other Verses
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Gregory, John Goadby
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1892
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Gregory's verses reflect Aesop at several points. The Clay God is Aesop's fable. The moral may not be the one Aesop had in mind: /The world is like the heathen's god./Petition it in humble strain,/And you may supplicate in vain./But raise a strong right arm and strike,/And you can have whate'er you like./From Aesop (28) has four good verse renditions of Aesop's fables. The first is The Stag at the Pool. The moral: Beauty is made to be admired;/But use is more to be desired. CJ finishes nicely: The world's way is to underrate/What it can not appreciate. A line design of Walter Crane's sets up the third rendition, Juno and the Peacock. The fourth has the two thirsty frogs pondering over jumping into a well. Reader, in mind the moral keep,/Look--always look!--before you leap. The title-poem is last in this collection. It is a wistful, meditative look at a beautiful person who died 3000 years ago.
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