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James Russell Lowell - A Parable - III
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An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale
From passion`s fountain flooded all the vale.
`Hee-haw!` cried he, `I hearken,` as who knew
For such ear-largess humble thanks were due.
`Friend,` said the winged pain, `in vain you bray,
Who tunnels bring, not cisterns, for my lay;
None but his peers the poet rightly hear,
Nor mete we listeners by their length of ear.`
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