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TOMAS DE IRIARTE.
55
THE ASS AND THE FLUTE.
This little fable heard,
It good or ill may be;
But it has just occurr'd,
Thus accidentally.
Passing my abode,
Some fields adjoining me,
A big Ass on his road
Came accidentally;
And laid upon the spot,
A Flute he chanced to see,
Some shepherd had forgot,
There accidentally.
The animal in front,
To scan it nigh came he,
And snuffing loud as wont,
Blew accidentally.
The air it chanced around
The pipe went passing free,
And thus the Flute a sound
Gave accidentally.
