The Ass In The Lion's Skin

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Title:     The Ass In The Lion's Skin
Author: Jean de La Fontaine [More Titles by La Fontaine]

An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed
Made everybody fear.
And this was queer,
Because he was himself afraid.
Yet everywhere he strayed
The people ran like deer.

Ah, ah! He is betrayed:
No lion has that long and hairy ears.

Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk
Who are not in the secret of the joke,
With open mouths and eyes
Stare at old Martin's prize--
A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.

[The end]
Jean de La Fontaine's poem: Ass In The Lion's Skin

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