The Mountain In Labour

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Title:     The Mountain In Labour
Author: Jean de La Fontaine [More Titles by La Fontaine]

A mountain was in travail pang;
The country with her clamour rang.
Out ran the people all, to see,
Supposing that the birth would be
A city, or at least a house.
It was a mouse!

In thinking of this fable,
Of story feign'd and false,
But meaning veritable,
My mind the image calls
Of one who writes, "The war I sing
Which Titans waged against the Thunder-king."
As on the sounding verses ring,
What will be brought to birth?
Why, dearth.

[The end]
Jean de La Fontaine's poem: Mountain In Labour

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