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FLORIAN'S FABLES.

fable vi.
THE CARP AND HER YOUNG.

"Take care, my little ones, take care, Beware the river's bank," she said, "The treach'rous hook is lurking there; The hawk is hov'ring in the air; Keep ever to the river's bed." Thus 'midst the waters of the Seine, The carp once plead, yet plead in vain,