FABLES OF LA FONTAINE*
"Of Fables judge not by their face;
They give the simplest brute a teacher's place.
Bare precepts were inert and tedious things;
The story gives them life and wings."
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
*Translated by Elizur Wright, Jr.
"Of Fables judge not by their face;
They give the simplest brute a teacher's place.
Bare precepts were inert and tedious things;
The story gives them life and wings."
*Translated by Elizur Wright, Jr.